David,
Can you provide any more info? Is it just being talked about or are people
actively working on it now? I would be interested in assisting. I've done a
lot with Selenium and the ruby driver and would be interested in providing
beautiful high level helpers that allow people switch from non-Selenium
based specs to Selenium-based specs with more ease. I know this can be a
barrier for people.
Zach
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Just an FYI - spec-ui, an rspec extension that supports integration with
> selenium and watir, has been under some discussion lately and should see
> some new life soon.
>
> On May 8, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Zach Dennis wrote:
>
> I've had really iffy luck with Selenium plugins in the past
> (selenium-on-rails, seleniumfu_rc, selenium_rc, etc.) so I've started to
> write a RailsSeleniumStory. I also had to remove the
> ActiveRecordSafetyListener in my efforts.
>
> The RailsSeleniumStory is a part of the mhs_testing plugin [0] and it
> provides higher level helpers. For example I love how form-test-helper is
> used to select and submit forms:
>
> # option 1
> form = select_form 'expense_form'
> form.expense.amount = 12.99
> form.submit
>
> # option 2
> submit_form 'expense_form' do |form|
> form.expense.amount = 12.99
> form.expense.category_id = 2
> form.expense.comments = "map for trip"
> end
>
> You can use this same syntax within RailsSeleniumStories. Right now you can
> also use "have_tag" and "with_tag" matchers with Selenium. It supports basic
> matching (I wouldn't get to crazy with nesting or lots of
> assert-select/have-tag options), but it will be supporting more options
> shortly.
>
> So your login example could just look like:
>
> Given('log in as a admin user')
> open "/admin/login"
> submit_form "login_form" do |form|
> form.login = 'developer'
> form.password = 'test'
> end
> end
>
> Which IMO I really like because if you need variations of that you can pull
> out a helper method like:
>
> def submit_login_form(user, password='test')
> submit_form "login_form" do |form|
> form.login = user.login
> form.password = passsword
> end
> end
>
> And you could push your open into a helper as well:
> def go_to_login_page
> open "/admin/login"
> end
>
> And now your Given could look like:
> Given('log in as a admin user')
> go_to_login_page
> submit_login_form @user, 'test'
> end
>
> Now granted submit_form and select_form both take a form's id, so each of
> your forms need to have one.
>
> If you are interested and have the time please check it out. Granted it's
> in its infancy and there's not a whole lot of docs right now (there is a
> README.Selenium for instructions on how-to setup in your project), but you
> can find me on GTalk or in irc.freenode.net (zdennis) and of course right
> here on the rspec ML. I am have 33 scenarios using the RailsSeleniumStory,
>
> ttyl,
>
> Zach
>
> 0 - http://github.com/mvanholstyn/mhs_testing/tree/master
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Joseph Wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I have been using Rspec stories with Webrat feeling very productive and
>> happy.
>>
>> Then I needed to do something with Selenium (Webrat could have done what
>> I needed but it does not yet have the functionality).
>>
>> Selenium-core as part of a rails plugin looked nice but did not seem to
>> fit with rspec stories. So I went the Selenium-rc route.
>>
>> Since Selenium uses a separate instance of rails
>> (http://www.nabble.com/stories-with-selenium-and-the-db-td16190686.html)
>> I had to turn off the ActiveRecordSafetyListener used in rspec to make
>> sure the db writes committed.
>>
>> Which in turn left me having to manually cleanup my selenium stories :(
>>
>> So that required writing a new, rather gritty scenario listener which
>> dealt with the cleaning operation. It has to do lots of horrible things
>> like remove all listeners for a selenium story and then re-add them all
>> for the others stories.
>>
>> *Code Extract*
>>
>> def story_ended(title, narrative)
>> case title
>> when 'Edit a page'
>>
>> #We have finished the selenium story
>> $selenium_driver.stop
>>
>> #Do we need to re-add some listeners
>> if [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>> Spec::Story::Runner.scenario_runner.add_listener(ActiveRecordSafetyListener.instance)
>> @listener_reloaded=true
>> end
>> end
>> end
>>
>>
>> I had to duplicate a lot of the story steps since now any previous
>> post/gets did not work since they post to the test instance and not the
>> selenium rails instance.
>>
>> I also needed to invoke against the selenium driver so even when the
>> steps would work I had to duplicate them with
>> $selenium_driver.do_something()
>>
>>
>> This nice Given:
>>
>> Given('log in as a admin user')
>> post '/admin/sessions/create', :login => @user.login, :password =>
>> @user.password
>> end
>>
>> Being duplicated with this
>>
>> Given('log in as a admin user')
>> $selenium_driver.open '/admin/login'
>> $selenium_driver.type 'login', 'developer'
>> $selenium_driver.type 'password', 'test'
>> $selenium_driver.click 'commit'
>> end
>>
>> After some very painful testing and a lot of time I got my Selenium-rc
>> and Webrat stories working. This experience really opened my eyes to the
>> big void introduced by Selenium-rc running outside of the test instance.
>>
>> This has made me wonder whether I should have rspec stories stepping
>> outside of the test rails instance to drive Selenium tests.
>>
>> Has anyone managed to make this process easier?
>>
>> I'm hoping I'm doing something silly which is making it all harder!
>>
>> Is it feasible to bring selenium into the test rails instances?
>>
>> Is it just always going to be painful?
>>
>> I was skipping along having a lot of fun with stories and Webrat, now
>> I'm face down in a puddle of mud, dreading that Selenium moment.
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Wilk
>> http://www.joesniff.co.uk
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