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rubycucumberwatir-webdriver
Dmitriy Andrienko
Dmitriy Andrienko

Reputation: 11

Why does Watir-webdriver open two browsers?

I'm working on website test automation using Cucumber/Ruby/Selenium-Webdriver/Capybara. I want to switch to Watir-Webdriver in combination with Cucumber and Ruby, but I'm struggling with the following:

Every time I run my cucumber test, Watir opens two browser windows, a blank screen to the site I configurated as default, plus another in which the actual test steps are executed.

My 'Support/env.rb' file has:

require 'allure-cucumber'
require 'rspec'
require 'watir-webdriver'

AllureCucumber.configure do |c|
  c.output_dir = 'D:\Test\result'
  c.clean_dir  = true
  c.tms_prefix      = '@PRACTEST--'
  c.issue_prefix    = '@JIRA++'
  c.severity_prefix = '@URGENCY:'
  c.tms_prefix =  ''
end

My steps file begins with:

require 'watir-webdriver'
require 'cucumber'
require 'rspec'
require_relative 'D:\EntelTest\src\PageObject\home_page.rb'

Before  do
  @test = AbstractPage.new(Watir::Browser.new :ff)
  @test.full_size
end

After  do
  @test.quit
end


home_page = nil


When(/^Go to home page$/) do
  home_page  = @test.goToHomePage

end

Upvotes: 1

Views: 276

Answers (2)

Kaushal Rupani
Kaushal Rupani

Reputation: 186

What you have put in step file should go in hooks.rb file.

Please install gem called testnow. It will help you to create most standard and easy to use watir-webdriver framework with all pre-configured browsers.

Steps: 

1) gem install testnow   
2) testnow watir_cucumber_now

It will as you to install dependecies, enter Y to set it up completely. It will create robust framework with a sample scenario.

Just run the sample scenario with any of the following commands.

rake testnow BROWSER=firefox
rake testnow BROWSER=chrome
rake testnow BROWSER=opera

This will only work provided you have browsers pre-installed and webdriver present in PATH variable.

Please comment for more information.

Hope it helps!!

Upvotes: 0

Emjey
Emjey

Reputation: 2063

Can you put these before do and after do in hooks.rb? In the steps.rb file, just mention the code for your cucumber steps, and before that declare browser = Watir::Browser.new :ff

The best practice is to put it in hooks.rb. env.rb usually should consist the desired capabilities plus server environment codes. :)

Upvotes: 0

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