Ferris

Synopsis

An opinionated testing framework built on top of Watir which provides massive power with minimal DSL.

Installation

Ensure that you have the most up to date version of chromedriver installed, this can be done using brew:

$ brew update
$ brew install chromedriver

Or you can download it directly here : https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

Add this line to your gemfile:

gem 'ferris_watir'

And install it using:

$ bundle install

To use this library in your code:

require 'ferris'

Running the demo specs in this repo

Clone this repo and cd into it.

Run:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rspec

Ferris should run a number of tests against wikipedia and you should see an output like this in your terminal:

    [Coveralls] Set up the SimpleCov formatter.
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    Ferris::Core
      Text
        can call do
        can call do!
        do! is better than do
      Select List
        can call do
        can call do!
        do! is better than do
      Checkboxes
        can call do
        can call do!
        do! is better than do
      Radios
        can call do
        can call do!
        do! is better than do
    
    Ferris Element
      can call keyword
      can call do
      can call do!
      can locate from a region
      can locate from a page
    
    Ferris::Page
      is the correct object type
      can visit
      can retrieve its title
      can retrieve its url
    
    Ferris::Region
      is the correct object type
      can call exists?
      can call present?
      cannot call click
    
    Ferris::Site
      Compliance Site
        is the correct object type
        knows its base url
      Responsive Site
        is the correct object type
        knows its base url
      No URL Site
        should raise an error
    
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