Gauge example in Ruby

This is an example project for doing web automation testing with Gauge. This project tests some of the functionalities of the active admin demo app. This app is hosted as a Java WAR (with embedded Jetty).

Running this example

The tests are run on Chrome by default.

Prerequisites

This example requires the following softwares to run.

ruby-2.3.1 or above
Gauge
Gauge Ruby plugin
- can be installed using gauge install ruby
Chrome

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/

Run specs

You can execute specs as bundle exec gauge specs This runs Gauge specs with Maven.

This uses Chrome as default browser for specs execution. Make sure Chrome is installed in your machine and chromedriver is in PATH.

If you want to use Firefox/IE as browser, pass the corresponding argument to set browser environment as follows:

bundle exec gauge run specs --env="firefox"
or
bundle exec gauge run specs --env="ie"

Topics covered in the example

Specification, Scenario, Step, Concepts and Context Steps
Table parameters
Using External datasource (special param)
Using tags
Using Gauge with Selenium Webdriver