Selenium Ruby Binding – how ?

Good part of selenium is that the selenium tests can be written in multiple programming languages like c#, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby etc. I normally hear saying that “This Java project, so we can write tests in Java as well”.  The only advantage I see with this is that you can get help from development team incase you are stuck somewhere. But if you are good at c# or any other language it should not be an hindrance. Test framework will be different that coding framework unless you want to integrate it.

I covered Java and C# in most of my previous posts. Here I will be using Ruby to write the Selenium tests.

 A simple Ruby Test

require "selenium-webdriver"
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.navigate.to "http://www.google.com"
element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "Hello Selenium WebDriver!"
element.submit

require “selenium-webdriver”  – This is similar to import in Java and using in c#

The above example is without using any Test framework. In Ruby you can use Test Framework as you do with C# ( NUNIT test framework) and Java( JUNIT or TestNG framework).

In Ruby you can use minitest or BDD framework  RSpec or Cucumber

Structure of RSpec test

load File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/test_helper.rb' 
#'describe' marks the a test group
describe "Selenium Ruby Tests" do 
include TestHelper
 # 'it' marks the start of a test case, ends with the matching 'end'
it "Start Chrome" do
 browser = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome) browser.navigate.to(site_url)
 sleep 1
 browser.quit
end
it "Start FireFox" do
browser = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:firefox) browser.navigate.to(site_url)
 sleep 1
 browser.quit
end
it "Start IE" do
 browser = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:ie) browser.navigate.to(site_url)
 sleep 1
 browser.quit
end 
end

For more information on RSPec click here .

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