Hi S, apologies for the late reply, I wanted to comment on so many things in your e-mail that I never had the time to write such a long message. :)
I will do my best now in the limited time that I have a the moment. Comments are inline. On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:26 AM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: > The Flow extension's features/flow_logged_in.feature fails for me > asserting "Then links to talk and contrib should be visible" after "When I > hover over the author link". I know exactly where it's failing, but not why. > > Whenever a test fails and it's not simply due to a page element changed > its name or text, I have little idea how to debug it. SInce the cycle time > for a test requiring login is over a minute, it's painful to try > line-by-line changes. I'm used to interactively debugging jQuery selectors > in a browser console, what's the equivalent for browser tests? > I usually use irb[1][2], but there are alternatives, like pry[3]. * Is there a way to break into the Ruby debugger when running a cucumber > test? > Of course! In fact, there are several options[4][5][6][7]. I do not have a lot of experience with any of the, because most of the problems are solved using irb. > * Is there a flash() function to flicker the page element that I'm trying > to select, or a dump() function? > It is even called flash[8]! I am not sure what you expect from dump(), but you can get element's html[9], if that is what you need. > * Should I see a mouseover effect in Firefox WebDriver while I'm watching > a test that calls some_element.fire_event('onmouseover') ? > hover[10] should fire onmouseover event, and yes, you should see something happening. > Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. > > (Chris, > the Flow code changed to do a CSS animations on hover to fade in the the > links, so I tried adding a sleep. The hover effect is on the parent element > of the element that the test does a mouseover on, so I tried changing the > mouseover element. Neither helped.) > Code or it did not happen! :) Can you push the code you have so far to gerrit and add me as a reviewer. Let me know if you need help using any of the tools, or if anything is still unclear. Željko -- 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Ruby_Shell 2: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/ 3: http://pryrepl.org/ 4: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/debugger 5: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/ruby-debug 6: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/pry-debugger 7: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/ruby-debug-ide 8: http://rdoc.info/gems/watir-webdriver/Watir/Element#flash-instance_method 9: http://rdoc.info/gems/watir-webdriver/Watir/Element#html-instance_method 10: http://rdoc.info/gems/watir-webdriver/Watir/Element#hover-instance_method
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