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Ruby test automation

A comprehensive curated list of Ruby test automation frameworks, tools, libraries and software to help software engineers easily bootstrap test automation on Ruby.

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xUnit frameworks

  • Test::Unit - is intended for unit testing and comes bundled with Ruby.
  • MiniTest - becomes available on attaching the minitest-reporters gem. The minitests are added to the Test::Unit framework.

TDD \ ATDD \ BDD

  • TDD
    • RR - A test double framework that features a rich selection of double techniques and a terse syntax.
  • BDD
    • RSpec - Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby. RSpec becomes available in Ruby projects on attaching the rspec gem. For the Rails applications, rspec-rails gem is also required.
    • Cucumber - This testing tool supports BDD, and enables using features and scenarios written in a human-readable language, either English or any other language specified in the # language: comment. Cucumber becomes available in project upon installing and activating the cucumber gem.
    • Bacon - A small RSpec clone.
    • minitest - minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.
    • Spinach - Spinach is a high-level BDD framework that leverages the expressive Gherkin language (used by Cucumber) to help you define executable specifications of your application or library's acceptance criteria.
  • Assertions
    • Shoulda - is intended for unit testing, and becomes available in Ruby projects on attaching the shoulda gem. So doing, the Shoulda tests are added on to the Test::Unit framework.
    • shoulda-matchers - Provides Test::Unit- and RSpec-compatible one-liners that test common Rails functionality. These tests would otherwise be much longer, more complex, and error-prone.
  • Mocking
    • ActiveMocker - Generate mocks from ActiveRecord models for unit tests that run fast because they don’t need to load Rails or a database.
    • TestXml - TestXml is a small extension for testing XML/HTML.
    • WebMock - Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests.
  • Extensions
    • Cutest - Isolated tests in Ruby. Each test file is run in a forked process to avoid shared state. Once a failure is found, you get a report detailing what failed and how to locate the error and the rest of the file is skipped.
    • Spork - A DRb server for testing frameworks (RSpec / Cucumber currently).

Code analysis

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Test data

  • Fabrication - A simple and powerful object generation library.
  • factory_girl - A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.
  • Fake Person - Uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK.
  • faker - A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
  • ffaker - A faster Faker, generates dummy data, rewrite of faker.
  • Forgery - Easy and customizable generation of forged data.
  • Machinist - Fixtures aren't fun. Machinist is.

Web UI test automation

  • Libraries
    • Selenium WebDriver - This gem provides Ruby bindings for WebDriver.
    • API Taster - A quick and easy way to visually test your Rails application's API.
    • Watir - Web application testing in Ruby.
    • Watir-webdriver - The most elegant way to use WebDriver with ruby.
    • Poltergeist - Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.
    • PhantomJS - is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.
  • Frameworks
    • Capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications.
    • Konacha - Test your Rails application's JavaScript with the mocha test framework and chai assertion library.
  • Page Objects
    • page-object - Gem to implement PageObject pattern in watir-webdriver and selenium-webdriver.
    • watirsome - Awesome page objects with Watir.
    • widgeon - Yet another 'page objects for Capybara' gem with ability to create custom loadable elements akka 'widgets'

Mobile test automation

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Windows UI test automation

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Unix \ Linux UI test automation

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MacOS UI test automation

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Virtual environments

  • RVM - Ruby Version Manager (RVM) is a unix command-line tool which allows you to easily install, manage, and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.
  • Pik - Multi-Ruby Manager for Windows

Performance & stress & load

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Security checking

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Continuous Integration

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Reporting

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Documentation generation

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Editors, IDE, consoles

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Useful libs

  • parallel_tests - Speedup Test::Unit + RSpec + Cucumber by running parallel on multiple CPUs (or cores). ParallelTests splits tests into even groups(by number of tests or runtime) and runs each group in a single process with its own database.
  • headless - Is the Ruby interface for Xvfb. It allows you to create a headless display straight from Ruby code, hiding some low-level action. It can also capture images and video from the virtual framebuffer.
  • watir-jquery - Watir-jquery gem allows you to use the jQuery syntax to find page elements and returns Watir-object type (e.x. "#<Watir::Div:0x..").

Resources

Where to discover new libraries, information, tools, etc.

Websites

Other Awesome Test Automation Lists

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!