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Reputation: 11107

Alternatives to testing HTML5 media elements

I'm testing audio tags in my Capybara tests. I'm using the poltergeist driver with PhantomJS. The problem is that the PhantomJS team resoundingly stated they have no plans to support HTML5 media elements such as <audio> or <video>. This is problematic as I need to test this audio player for a features test. Because of this, I need to replace the poltergeist driver. What driver alternatives exist? Could I by any chance run one driver for the audio tests and then run poltergeist for the other tests?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 189

Answers (1)

Thomas Walpole
Thomas Walpole

Reputation: 49870

The selenium driver runs actual browsers rather than headless, and therefore supports whatever functionality real browsers support (at a slower speed than the headless drivers).

Assuming you are using the normal Capybara/RSpec configuration where you have set Capybara.javascript_driver = :poltergeist and are tagging your scenarios with js: true to indicate to use poltergeist, then you can remove the js: true metadata and replace it with driver: :selenium on the tests where you want to use audio

Upvotes: 1

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