Practical Test Automation: Learn to Use Jasmine, RSpec, and Cucumber Effectively for Your TDD and BDD

Table of Contents....5 About the Author....11 About the Technical Reviewer....12 Introduction....13 Chapter 1: Introduction to Jasmine....15 Learning Goals....18 Introduction....18 Download....19 A New JavaScript Project....19 Setting Up Jasmine....21 Write Your First Dummy Spec....24 describe....26 it....26 expect....26 Start Your Application Implementation: Test-Driven Development (TDD)....27 More Specs....35 Refactoring....44 TDD Flow....45 Jasmine Matchers....46 Setup and Teardown....47 Nesting describe Blocks....50 Disabling Suites and Pending Specs....54 Tasks and Quizzes....55 Key Takeaways....57 Chapter 2: Advanced Jasmine....58 Learning Goals....59 Stubbing and Mocking....59 Stubbing with Jasmine....60 Mocking with Jasmine....66 Stubbing and Mocking As Testing Tools....74 Task Details....74 Key Takeaways....75 Chapter 3: Using Minitest....76 Learning Goals....76 Introduction....77 First Unit Test....77 TDD: Test-Driven Development....78 Verify That You Can Run the Test Suite....78 Test Real Requirements....81 Red Light....82 Make the Test Better....86 Make Them Green....92 assert_nil....97 Refactor....97 Running a Single Test....99 seed....99 Multiple Files....100 Using rake....105 Require All Files of Your Project....106 RubyMine Integration....109 Minitest: Other Assert Commands....117 Task Details....118 Key Takeaways....120 Chapter 4: Introduction to RSpec....122 Learning Goals....122 Introduction....124 New Project....124 rspec Version....126 Initialize RSpec....127 RSpec Configuration....127 Inside the spec Folder....131 Describing....131 Sanity Check....133 Documentation Formatter....136 Let’s Write a Real Specification....137 Run and Watch That Fail and Then Fix It....140 Sharing Setup Code....147 before Hook....150 Helper Methods....152 Share with let....154 Context....154 Running Specific Examples....157 RubyMine Integration....164 Task Details....169 Key Takeaways....170 Chapter 5: Useful RSpec Tools....171 Learning Goals....171 Hooks....172 before(:suite)....172 before(:all)....179 before(:example) or Simply before....185 after Hooks....185 Multiple Hooks....185 subject....185 Extending RSpec with Helper Methods in Modules....193 Metadata....198 described_class....199 Custom Metadata....200 Filtering....204 Tasks and Quizzes....205 Quiz....205 Task Details....205 Key Takeaways....210 Chapter 6: Introduction to Cucumber....211 Learning Goals....211 Introduction....212 The Project and Cucumber Installation....212 cucumber Executable....214 Let’s Initialize....215 Let’s Invoke cucumber....217 Write Your First Scenario....218 Defining Steps (with Pending Implementation)....221 Implement the First Step....223 Implement the Second Step....226 Implement the Third Step....229 Implementing the Feature in Application Code....230 Introduce One More Scenario....231 Proper Implementation to Support Any Addition....235 Removing Duplication with Scenario Outlines....236 RSpec Integration....238 Add rspec in Gemfile....239 Use RSpec Matchers....240 Task Details....240 Key Takeaways....241 Chapter 7: Advanced Cucumber....243 Learning Goals....243 Introduction....244 Gherkin Keywords....244 Feature....245 Background....246 Scenario....247 And, But, and *....249 Scenario Names and Description....249 Scenario State....250 Data Tables....250 Spoken Languages....254 Which Languages?....254 Specify the Language of a Feature File....255 Localization of Gherkin Keywords....255 A More Extensive Example....256 Initialize the Project....256 Gemfile....256 Initialize Cucumber....257 The Feature File....257 Undefined Steps....258 Implementing the First Step....260 Implementing the Second Step....263 Implementing the Third Step....265 Implementing the Fourth Step....271 Scenario Outline....275 Some Rooms Are Not Available....278 Increase Your Confidence with Some Extra Examples....287 RSpec and Unit Tests....289 Rest of the Feature....293 Cucumber Command Line....293 Dry Run....293 Invoking a Single Feature....296 Invoking a Single Scenario....297 Tags....303 Hooks....310 Doc Strings....319 Cucumber and RubyMine Integration....320 Task Details....321 Key Takeaways....321 Index....323