Spreewald

Spreewald is a collection of useful steps for cucumber. Feel free to fork.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'spreewald'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install spreewald

Usage

Steps are grouped into a number of categories. You can pick and choose single categories by putting something like

require 'spreewald/email_steps'

into your support/env.rb

Alternatively, you can require everything by doing

require 'spreewald/all_steps'

Waiting for page load

Spreewald's web steps are all aware that you might run them with a Selenium/Capybara webdriver, and wait for the browser to finish loading the page, if necessary.

This is done by rerunning any assertions until they suceed or a timeout is reached.

We consider a couple of potential exceptions as "retriable", including Capybara::ElementNotFound, (R)Spec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError, Capybara::Poltergeist::ClickFailed

You can add your own error class with ToleranceForSeleniumSyncIssues::RETRY_ERRORS << 'MyCustomError'

You can achieve this in your own steps by wrapping them inside a patiently do block, like

Then /^I should see "([^\"]*)" in the HTML$/ do |text|
  patiently do
    page.body.should include(text)
  end
end

More info here.

This README

The "Steps" section is autogenerated by rake update_readme from comments in the step definitions.

Steps

development_steps.rb

Marks scenario as pending

Then it should work

Marks scenario as pending
Then debugger

Starts debugger
@slow

Waits 2 seconds after each step
@single

Waits for keypress after each step

email_steps.rb

When I clear my e?mails

Then (an|no) e?mail should have been sent with:

Example:

  Then an email should have been sent with:
    """
    From: max.mustermann@example.com
    To: john.doe@example.com
    Subject: Unter anderem der Betreff kann auch "Anführungszeichen" enthalten
    Body: ...
    Attachments: ...
    """

You can skip lines, of course.

When I follow the (first|second|third)? link in the e?mail

Only works after you have retrieved the mail using "Then an email should have been sent with:"
Then no e?mail should have been sent
Then I should see "..." in the e?mail

Checks that the last sent email includes some text
Then show me the e?mails

Print all sent emails to STDOUT.
Then that e?mail should( not)? have the following lines in the body:

Only works after you've retrieved the email using "Then an email should have been sent with:"

Example:
```
  And that mail should have the following lines in the body:
    """
    All of these lines
    need to be present
    """
```
Then that e?mail should have the following body:

Only works after you've retrieved the email using "Then an email should have been sent with:" Checks that the text should be included in the retrieved email

table_steps.rb

Check the content of tables in your HTML.

See this article for details.

Then I should( not)? see a table with (exactly )?the following rows( in any order)?

timecop_steps.rb

Steps to travel through time using Timecop.

See this article for details.

When the (date|time) is "?(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}( \d{1,2}:\d{2})?)"?

Example:
```
  Given the date is 2012-02-10
  Given the time is 2012-02-10 13:40
```
When the time is "?(\d{1,2}:\d{2})"?

Example:
```
  Given the time is 13:40
```
When it is (\d+|a|some|a few) (seconds?|minutes?|hours?|days?|weeks?|months?|years?) (later|earlier)

Example:
```
  When it is 10 minutes later
  When it is a few hours earlier
```

web_steps.rb

Most of cucumber-rails' original web steps plus a few of our own.

Note that cucumber-rails deprecated all its steps quite a while ago with the following deprecation notice. Decide for yourself whether you want to use them:

This file was generated by Cucumber-Rails and is only here to get you a head start These step definitions are thin wrappers around the Capybara/Webrat API that lets you visit pages, interact with widgets and make assertions about page content.

If you use these step definitions as basis for your features you will quickly end up with features that are:

Hard to maintain

Verbose to read

A much better approach is to write your own higher level step definitions, following the advice in the following blog posts:

http://benmabey.com/2008/05/19/imperative-vs-declarative-scenarios-in-user-stories.html

http://dannorth.net/2011/01/31/whose-domain-is-it-anyway/

http://elabs.se/blog/15-you-re-cuking-it-wrong

When ... within (.*[^:])

You can append 'within [selector]' to any other web step Example:
```
  Then I should see "some text" within ".page_body"
```
Given I am on ...
When I go to ...
When I press "..."
When I follow "..."
When I fill in "..." (with|for) "..."

Fill in text field
When I fill in "..." (with|for) '...'

Fill in text field
When I select "..." from "..."

Select from select box
When I check "..."

Check a checkbox
When I uncheck "..."

Uncheck a checkbox
When I choose "..."

Select a radio button
When I attach the file "..." to "..."
Then I should see "..."

Checks that some text appears on the page

Note that this does not detect if the text might be hidden via CSS
Then I should see /([^/]*)/

Checks that a regexp appears on the page

Note that this does not detect if the text might be hidden via CSS
Then I should not see "..."
Then I should not see /([^/]*)/
Then the "..." field should (not )?contain "..."

Checks that an input field contains some value (allowing * as wildcard character)
Then I should see a form with the following values:

Checks that a list of label/value pairs are visible as control inputs.

Example:
```
  Then I should see a form with the following values:
    | E-mail | foo@bar.com   |
    | Role   | Administrator |
```
Then the "..." field should have the error "..."

checks that an input field was wrapped with a validation error
Then the "..." field should( not)? have an error
Then the "..." field should have no error
Then the radio button "..." should( not)? be (checked|selected)
Then I should be on ...
Then I should have the following query string:

Example:
```
  I should have the following query string:
    | locale        | de  |
    | currency_code | EUR |
```
Succeeds when the URL contains the given "locale" and "currency_code" params
Then show me the page

Open the current Capybara page using the "launchy" gem
Then I should( not)? see a field "..."

checks for the existance of a input field (given its id or label)
Then I should( not)? see the (number|amount) ([-\d,.]+)( (.*?))?

Better way to test for a number of money amount than a Then I should see

Checks that there is unexpected minus sign, decimal places etc.

See here for details
Then I should get a response with content-type "..."

Checks "Content-Type" HTTP header
Then I should get a download with filename "..."

Checks "Content-Disposition" HTTP header
Then "..." should be selected for "..."

Checks that a certain option is selected for a text field
Then nothing should be selected for "..."?
Then "..." should( not)? be an option for "..."

Checks for the presence of an option in a select
Then I should see '([^']*)'

Like Then I should see, but with single instead of double quotes. In case the string contains quotes as well.
Then I should see "..." in the HTML

Check that the raw HTML contains a string
Then I should not see "..." in the HTML
Then I should see an error

Checks that status code is 400..599
When I reload the page
Then (the tag )?"..." should( not)? be visible

Checks that an element is actually visible, also considering styles Within a selenium test, the browser is asked whether the element is really visible In a non-selenium test, we only check for ".hidden", ".invisible" or "style: display:none"

More details here
When I click on "..."

Click on some text that might not be a link
Then "..." should link to "..."

Use this step to check external links.

Example:
```
  Then "Sponsor" should link to "http://makandra.com"
```

Then I should (not )?see an element "..."