taza

DESCRIPTION:

Taza is meant to make acceptance testing more sane for developers(or QA where applicable) and customers.

FEATURES:

  • Generate a project for browser-based testing

  • Generate pages and sites for different applications

  • Create flows that move through a site

  • Use filters to control which elements are accessible on a page depending on its state

  • Taza automatically creates and cleans up the browser for each site just like a File block

  • Manage tests by tags

  • Cross-site testing

ISSUES:

  • Taza has only been used in the wild with WATIR(Safari/Firefox/IE), but Selenium support is built-in

  • Taza’s generators currently generate RSpec specs, Test::Unit and other test framework support is planned

SYNOPSIS:

Taza is meant to be a refreshing way to look at browser testing. Taza provides a few ways to abstract browser-based testing into three simple ideas.

* Sites
* Pages
* Flows

Sites have Pages. Pages have elements and filters. Flows are common actions on a site such as logging in or performing a search.

Here’s an example for starting a project around the Google sites

$ taza google
$ cd google/
$ ./script/generate site google
$ ./script/generate page home_page google
$ ./script/generate flow search google
$ rake spec:functional:google

That will generate an RSpec HTML report at artifacts/functional/google/index.html

REQUIREMENTS:

  • taglob

INSTALL:

  • sudo gem install taza

  • gem install taza

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008 Charley Baker

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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