Remote applications and API testing starter suite

It can be used for:

• testing GUI of web-application within a web-browser
• API testing and mathching responses/requests against JSON-schema provided.

Requirements

• Rvm (optional)
• Docker (optional)
• Firefox (using Google Chrome/Chromium requires additional configuring)
• Ruby 2.5.1

Run with ruby

Within a terminal in a project folder:

• Run bundle to install gems set in Gemfile
• Then run tests with rspec

Run in a docker container

Within a terminal in a project folder:

• To use Chromium set Capybara.javascript_driver = :selenium_chrome_headless in spec/spec_helper.rb and change browser in a Docker file (follow comments)
• Make sure your Gemfile.lock exists bundle i
• Build a docker image named dockerrspec with docker build --rm -t dockerrspec .
• Run tests with docker run -it --rm --name remotetesting dockerrspec

WARNING always make sure that Firefox or Chromium runs in a headless mode in case of Docker.

Options

Browser and it's mode settings are in spec/spec_helper.rb file.

Available browsers

By default headless Firefox is set Capybara.javascript_driver = :firefox_headless.

• :selenium_firefox
• :selenium_firefox_headless
• :selenium_chrome
• :selenium_chrome_headless

Troubleshoot

• getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known: OS X must have 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts