On 26 February 2012 16:36, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm testing my signup page, and I want to minimize the duplication of the
> fill_in code for filling in the form fields and testing how my page reacts
> when someone forgets to enter input.
>
> fill_in "....", with: "abc123"
>
> Any tricks of doing this?
>
> Say I have 10 fill_in calls, so say I want to test to make sure the form
> fails if any combination of the last 4 fields are missing.
>
> I was thinking of putting the first 6 fill_in calls into a method, and
> then calling that method:
>
> it "should ..." do
> enter_first_6
> # now enter 3 of the 4 and verify
> end
>
> it "should ..." do
> enter_first_6
> # now enter a different combination of the last 4 fields
> end
>
> I haven't tested this yet, just brainstorming, any other advise?
>
> I wish things worked liked attribute hashes where you could just call
> .merge and change the default set.
>
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Quite a good way to do this is to create a hash that has all your values
and then modify the hash for your errors. So you could do something like
def good_attrs()
{
:foo => 'foo'
:bar => 'bar
...
}
end
then have a fill in method that takes the hash
def fill_in(attrs)
attrs.each do |k,v|
fill_in k, :with => v
...
finally do your errors by
fill_in(good_attrs(:with => {:foo => nil})
or use :except etc.
You can also put your a spec inside a loop
%w(foo bar bax).each do |bad_attr|
it "should ... #{bad_attr}..." do
fill_in(good_attrs(:except => {:bad_attr})
etc.
All of top of my head so expect syntax errors, but hopefully enough to be
useful
All best
Andrew
HTH
Andrew
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