Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby

by Dees, Ian

• ISBN13: 9781934356180
• ISBN10: 1934356182
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby is a practical, quick-moving tutorial based on real life, and real-world GUI applications. Right out of the gate you'll start working with code to drive a desktop GUI. You'll discover the kinds of gotchas and edge cases that don't exist in simple, toy programs. As you add more tests, you'll learn how to organize your test code and write lucid examples. The result is a series of "smoke tests" team will run on Continuous Integration servers. Next, we'll explore a variety of different testing tips and tricks. You'll employ a series of increasingly random and punishing test monkeys to try to crash programs. Table-driven techniques will show you how to check dozens of different input combinations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Testing for Fun and Profit	p. 1
Behavior-Driven Development and RSpec	p. 4
About This Book	p. 6
Acknowledgments	p. 8
One Big Example	p. 9
An Early Success	p. 11
First Steps	p. 11
Door #1: Windows	p. 15
Door #2: Swing with JRuby	p. 22
Review	p. 27
Refactoring with RSpec	p. 29
RSpec: The Language of Lucid Tests	p. 31
Building a Library	p. 36
The Story So Far	p. 41
Next Iteration: Simplify!	p. 43
Abstracting the Common Code	p. 44
Cleaning Windows	p. 45
Polishing JRuby	p. 56
Satisfaction	p. 58
The Home Stretch	p. 61
Save Me!	p. 61
The Password Is...	p. 67
Document Wrangling	p. 72
Cut to the Paste	p. 76
Are We There Yet?	p. 82
Aspects of Testing	p. 83
Branching Out	p. 85
Testing the App	p. 85
Testing the Tests	p. 85
Putting the Pieces Together	p. 86
Moving On	p. 87
Keep 'Em Guessing: Introducing Randomness	p. 89
Keys, Menu, or Mouse?	p. 89
Adding Lorem Ipsum to the Mix	p. 94
A Test Monkey Could Do This Job	p. 97
Breaking Camp	p. 100
Turn the Tables: Matrix Testing	p. 101
What to Test	p. 101
ZenTest and the Art of Matrix Maintenance	p. 103
Fit to Be Tested	p. 108
Testing the Tubes: Web Applications	p. 115
In-Browser Testing	p. 116
Selenium	p. 116
Selenium and RSpec	p. 123
Interacting with Ajax	p. 128
Watir	p. 132
Wrapping Up	p. 135
Testing in Plain English: Story Runner	p. 137
From Examples to Stories	p. 137
Designing with Stories	p. 142
Extending Our Design	p. 149
Where to Go from Here	p. 154
One More Thing: Testing on the Mac	p. 157
Taking the Reins	p. 157
From AppleScript to Ruby	p. 159
RSpec and AppleScript	p. 164
Other Windows Techniques	p. 167
Windows Script Host	p. 167
Win32::GuiTest	p. 168
Winobj	p. 169
A Few Win32 Definitions	p. 170
Resources	p. 173
Websites	p. 173
Books	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 175
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