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John
John

Reputation: 6612

Alternative for Selenium Webdriver in integration tests

In my Rails app I have a hidden little form, which is made visible by clicking a button. This is done with some jQuery "hide" and "show" commands, the form itself is pretty much standard stuff.

To test this I can use Selenium Webdriver, but it seems a bit heavy to startup a Firefox browser only for clicking that button with jQuery functionality. Are there any alternatives to do this more lean and simple?

Edit: there is a nice Railscast about using PhantomJS together with Rails and rspec: http://railscasts.com/episodes/391-testing-javascript-with-phantomjs

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2117

Answers (1)

Michal
Michal

Reputation: 3276

You coud take a look on Webdriver but with the PhantomJS - which supports headless testing. I haven't use it by myself but I've heard that's a good option if you don't need/want fire up the whole browser. I think you need Ghost Driver to bind it with the Webdriver but you woud need check that.

Upvotes: 2

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