jzahka/gauge-example-ruby

An example project, illustrating test automation using Gauge, with ruby support.

Gauge example project, in Ruby

This project serves as an example for writing Automation using Gauge

This project uses

• Capypage, that gives you neat helpers to define your Page Objects.
• Capybara, as a dependency of Capypage
• Test::Unit for assertions
• Snap CI has been setup to run the Gauge Specs from this project.

Concepts covered

• Use Webdriver as base of implementation
• Concepts
• Specification, Scenario & Step usage
• Table driven execution
• External datasource (special param)

Prerequisites

• Java 1.7 or above. [Required to bring up the SUT]
• Install Gauge
  • Homebrew on Mac OS X :

    brew install gauge
    

  • Download Installer
• Install Gauge-Ruby plugin by running
  

  gauge --install ruby
  

• Chromedriver, for Capybara to interact with Chrome. Make sure that the Chrome driver executable is available in your PATH.

Setting up the System Under Test (SUT)

• Download activeadmin-demo.war
• Bring up the SUT by executing the below command

java -jar activeadmin-demo.war

• The SUT should now be available at http://localhost:8080/

Executing specs

Set up

This project requires bundler to install dependencies, bundler can be installed by running

gem install bundler

To install dependencies run :

bundle install

All specs

bundle exec gauge specs

This will also compile all the supporting code implementations.

Copyright

Copyright 2016, ThoughtWorks Inc.