rspec users - Nov 2009 - Cucumber and IP PBX testing

Hi,

I am new to Cucumber.  I am a test engineer for an IP PBX.  Has anyone
tried to use Cucumber to test such application?  Some of the actions
that I need to perform are:

Given:
a) Configure parameters on a web site to change phone behavior
b) Configure parameters on a web site to change trunk behavior
c) Configure parameters on a web site to change system wide behavior

When:
a) Make a call from phone A to phone b
b) Press Transfer or Conference softkey
c) Configure Call Forward All from phone

Then:
a) Verify audio between two phones
b) Verify phone displays
c) Verify phone status prompt

I imagine I need to translate these steps into Ruby to see if they pass
or fail.  I don''t have control over the code that developer write for
features, since I am just a tester. We write scripts in TCL to automate
our test cases.

Any pointers or suggestions are welcome.

Regards,
Robertico
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Robertico,

Provided you can match the items you need to click, select, fill in and
alter with CSS (see assert_select:
http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/09/04/assert_select-cheat-sheet/) selectors,
you can do all of these things

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On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Robertico Gonzalez
<lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Cucumber. ?I am a test engineer for an IP PBX. ?Has anyone
> tried to use Cucumber to test such application? ?Some of the actions
> that I need to perform are:
>
> Given:
> a) Configure parameters on a web site to change phone behavior
> b) Configure parameters on a web site to change trunk behavior
> c) Configure parameters on a web site to change system wide behavior
>
> When:
> a) Make a call from phone A to phone b
> b) Press Transfer or Conference softkey
> c) Configure Call Forward All from phone
>
> Then:
> a) Verify audio between two phones
> b) Verify phone displays
> c) Verify phone status prompt
>
> I imagine I need to translate these steps into Ruby to see if they pass
> or fail. ?I don''t have control over the code that developer write
for
> features, since I am just a tester. We write scripts in TCL to automate
> our test cases.
>
> Any pointers or suggestions are welcome.
A while back I looked at using Twilio to do automated integration
testing a phone system. I started talking with some of their
engineers, but then the conversation just stopped. I didn''t know if
they got busy or thought I was crazy. :)

You can setup twilio accounts, one as a receiver and one as the
dialer. I got a proof of concept working with Cucumber as the driving
force, but I haven''t worked on that application in a while. Perhaps
twilio has provided some tools for this by now.

This probably isn''t what you were looking for, but thought I''d
share
the idea in case anyone has interest,
>
> Regards,
> Robertico
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