Rails - Feb 2006 - Selenium on Rails plugin

One of the things I like about Rails is the built-in support for testing 
? it?s almost hard not to write tests. But even if I write extensive 
tests (currently ?Code to Test Ratio: 1:3.4? according to rake stats in 
a small toy project) I still feel that it?s not enough. I occasionally 
get the urge to fire up the browser and click around to test that 
everything works. You shouldn?t have to ?click around? to test that you 
haven?t broken anything that often (although it?s probably good to use 
the browser for checking usability).

That?s where Selenium comes in. It?s a javascript based functional test 
tool that uses Fit like test scripts to test web application directly in 
the browser. There are other ways to test in browsers, like Watir, but 
they don?t run in any browser/platform so I think that javascript based 
solutions are the way to go. And for javascript based solutions I don?t 
know if there are any competition at all.

However, I didn?t think that vanilla Selenium worked as smooth as it 
should in a Rails context. So I?ve been writing a plug-in that makes the 
experience much better, IMHO. It took a bit longer than what I thought, 
but I?ve been busy and stuff like this takes time to get into a good 
enough state to release to the world.

Please try it out and let me know if you have any problems using it or 
if you have suggestions for improvements!

/Jonas Bengtsson, jonas.b@home.se, http://andthennothing.net


More info: 
http://andthennothing.net/archives/2006/02/05/selenium-on-rails
svn: http://andthennothing.net/svn/public/selenium_on_rails/

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Thanks for this -- I''ve been wanting such a thing since I read the  
Selenium and Rails integration article a while back.  Being lazy paid  
off -- I didn''t have to write it myself. :)

On Feb 5, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Jonas Bengtsson wrote:
> One of the things I like about Rails is the built-in support for  
> testing
> ? it?s almost hard not to write tests. But even if I write extensive
> tests (currently ?Code to Test Ratio: 1:3.4? according to rake  
> stats in
> a small toy project) I still feel that it?s not enough. I occasionally
> get the urge to fire up the browser and click around to test that
> everything works. You shouldn?t have to ?click around? to test that  
> you
> haven?t broken anything that often (although it?s probably good to use
> the browser for checking usability).
>
> That?s where Selenium comes in. It?s a javascript based functional  
> test
> tool that uses Fit like test scripts to test web application  
> directly in
> the browser. There are other ways to test in browsers, like Watir, but
> they don?t run in any browser/platform so I think that javascript  
> based
> solutions are the way to go. And for javascript based solutions I  
> don?t
> know if there are any competition at all.
>
> However, I didn?t think that vanilla Selenium worked as smooth as it
> should in a Rails context. So I?ve been writing a plug-in that  
> makes the
> experience much better, IMHO. It took a bit longer than what I  
> thought,
> but I?ve been busy and stuff like this takes time to get into a good
> enough state to release to the world.
>
> Please try it out and let me know if you have any problems using it or
> if you have suggestions for improvements!
>
> /Jonas Bengtsson, jonas.b@home.se, http://andthennothing.net
>
>
> More info:
> http://andthennothing.net/archives/2006/02/05/selenium-on-rails
> svn: http://andthennothing.net/svn/public/selenium_on_rails/
>
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Benjamin Curtis wrote:
> Thanks for this -- I''ve been wanting such a thing since I read the
> Selenium and Rails integration article a while back.  Being lazy paid
> off -- I didn''t have to write it myself. :)
Lazy is good. I was too lazy to write the tests in HTML. :-)

/Jonas

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