Spreewald
Our collection of useful cucumber steps.
Overview
Spreewald is an essential tool for developers using Cucumber with Rails, specifically tailored to enhance testing efficiency. By offering a comprehensive suite of step definitions and customizable features, Spreewald streamlines the testing process, ensuring that developers can focus more on building and less on troubleshooting. Suitable for various Ruby versions, it integrates seamlessly with Rails to facilitate user interface testing with Capybara.
The setup process is straightforward, allowing teams to quickly adopt Spreewald into their projects. By providing optional structures for defining mappings between user-friendly phrases and application routes, it enhances the clarity and purpose of the test cases. Whether you are a seasoned developer or just diving into testing, Spreewald promises to elevate your Cucumber experience.
Features
- Broad Compatibility: Works with Ruby versions 2.6.6 and 3.0.0, combined with Rails 7 and Capybara 3, ensuring support for contemporary applications.
- Flexible Installation: Simple integration by adding a line to your Gemfile, making it easy to start using right away.
- Categorized Steps: Grouped step definitions enable users to require only specific parts of Spreewald, reducing clutter and maintaining focus on relevant tests.
- Page Load Awareness: Includes mechanisms to wait for pages to load fully before executing tests, supporting robust and reliable UI testing.
- Custom Error Handling: Allows the creation of custom error classes for retries in tests, enhancing resilience against failures.
- Override Capabilities: Easily customize or override existing step definitions, enabling personalized testing strategies without causing ambiguity errors.
- Detailed Documentation: Comes with a binary that lists all step definitions, along with their corresponding paths and selectors, facilitating easy navigation and usage.
- Recommended Defaults: Offers suggestions for Capybara defaults, particularly useful for users migrating from older versions to ensure smooth functionality.
- Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often referred to as Rails, is an open-source web application framework written in Ruby. Known for its convention over configuration and don't repeat yourself (DRY) principles, Rails simplifies and accelerates the development of database-backed web applications.