selenium

Automated Tests for HTML5 Offline Web Applications with Capybara and Selenium

Testing web applications that make use of the new HTML5 features can be frustrating. With a bit of work, we can use Capybara to test them through the browser relatively easily. I recently started an offline web application built on Zend and Sammy.js. When I tried to add system tests using Capybara, the default drivers […]

Some Useful selenium Helpers

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could evaluate arbitrary javascript in the context of your Rails application’s window when testing it with Selenium? Well, you already can. What Selenium doesn’t do for you, however, is automatically serialize the result of your computation to JSON, then deserialize that JSON into a convenient ruby object. What I […]