I second the idea of Cucumber. I created some in-house process for our QA team to upload features and run cucumber, but beyond that the 'output html' argument is amazing. Really changed our QA process.
On Dec 15, 1:57 pm, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > As Dave suggests, Fitnesse is one way to go. Another is Cucumber > > Both of these take a bit of a different direction from Quality Center > > Instead of creating a mapping between requirements, specs, and tests, > they focus more around the idea of creating an executable > requirement. You express a description of the requirement in a > specific format which allows it to directly drive the code steps that > will exercise the functionality being described. The spec becomes the > test in this sense, which ensures that no mapping is needed and specs > tend to stay updated and 'in sync' with the current code in order for > the tests to continue to pass should the behavior of the app change by > design. > > You can learn more about Cucumber at their site www.cukes.info and I > highly recommend the new 'Cucumber Book' from Pragmatic Programmers > (available in E format now, print due fairly soon) > > A simple example of using Cucumber with Watir, along with a Page > Object pattern (a very useful abstraction layer technique) by Alister > Scott is on the Watir.com blog > here:http://watir.com/2011/01/22/simple-cucumber-watir-page-object-pattern... > > The general idea of creating your specs via examples of how the code > should behave (aka BDD, ATDD) is very well presented in the book > 'Specification by Example' by Gojko Adzic. Alister also did an > introduction to this way of working in a pdf you can download from his > blog > here:http://watirmelon.com/2011/05/18/specification-by-example-a-love-story/ > > You can find some very useful and entertaining videos of presentations > by Gojko and others in the 'podcast' section > athttp://skillsmatter.com/go/agile-testing. > There are several years worth of podcasts there but only the most > recent are listed. However if you search the site for keywords like > BDD, Page Objects, ATDD, Watir, etc you will find a bunch more > material (for example this one :http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/ > bootstrapping-cucumber-mnchhausen-style and this > one:http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-scrum/bdd-atdd-and-page-objects > which is doing Selenium but still helps to understand the page object > pattern) > > On Dec 14, 11:02 pm, Dave McNulla <mcnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > >http://www.opensourcetestmanagement.com/ > > The only one in the list that I've used was Fitnesse. You may already have > > tools that work well with Watir. for instance, if you use confluence, you > > can try this:http://watirmelon.com/2008/04/13/watir-tests-from-wiki-page/ > > > Good luck, > > > Dave -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
