= WatirSplash

* Web: http://github.com/jarmo/WatirSplash
* Author: Jarmo Pertman (mailto:jarmo.p[at]gmail.com)

== DESCRIPTION:

WatirSplash makes browser-based testing in Ruby splashin' easy.
It combines Watir (http://www.watir.com) for controlling the browser and
RSpec (http://rspec.info) for testing framework. This powerful combination gives you
the ability to write easily well-maintained and easy-to-read specs (specifications in RSpec) so
you don't need to have any extra documentation for your applications.

WatirSplash makes it easier to use best features of both of these tools together so
you won't have to spend time on thinking how to do that yourself - you can start
testing right away!

== FEATURES:

* generate command for generating default tests project structure
* generate_common command for generating a project structure for common functionality in your tests
* Browser will be opened and closed for each example group automatically
* You can use Watir method names directly without having to specify a browser object:
    text_field(:name => "locator") # instead of @browser.text_field(:name => "locator")
* All needed libraries will be loaded and helper modules will be included automatically
* All JavaScript errors will be detected and saved automatically
* Some additional methods to help using Watir (download_file, wait_until, wait_until! etc.)
* Some patches for different libraries which haven't made yet to the libraries themselves

* Custom html formatter for RSpec:
  - saves screenshot of the browser window
  - saves html of the page
  - saves all the files created/downloaded during the example and shows them on the report
  - automatically archives test results for later reviewing

== SYNOPSIS:

=== With plain Watir and RSpec:
    require 'watir'
    require 'spec'

    describe "Google" do
        before :all do
            @browser = Watir::Browser.new
            @browser.maximize
            @browser.goto "http://google.com"
            @browser.url.should =~ /google/
        end

        it "has search field" do
            text_field = @browser.text_field(:name => "q")
            text_field.should exist
            text_field.should be_visible
        end

        it "performs search" do
            @browser.text_field(:name => "q").set "Bing"
            @browser.button(:name => "btnG").click
            @browser.text.should include("Bing")
        end

        after :all do
            @browser.close
        end
    end



=== With WatirSplash:
    describe "Google" do
        before :all do
            goto "http://google.com"
            url.should =~ /google/
        end
        
        it "has search field" do
            text_field = text_field(:name => "q")
            text_field.should exist
            text_field.should be_visible
        end
        
        it "performs search" do
            text_field(:name => "q").set "Bing"
            button(:name => "btnG").click
            text.should include("Bing")
        end
    end
    
    C:\project\ui-test>spec spec\google_spec.rb
    Results will be saved into the directory C:/project/ui-test/results
    Google
      has search field
      performs search

    Finished in 6.782388 seconds

    2 examples, 0 failures

== INSTALL:

* install Ruby 1.8.6:
    http://rubyinstaller.org/
    
* install ImageMagick with rmagick-win32 gem for saving the screenshots in PNG format:
    http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=42049

* install WatirSplash:
    gem install watirsplash
    
== USAGE:
    
If you have a web-application project (it may have been written in any programming language) without any browser-based tests,
then it has probably a directory structure similar to this example:
    C:\example_project
    ├───doc
    ├───lib
    └───test
    
Now from the command line go to this directory and execute generate command:
    C:\>cd example_project

    C:\example_project>watirsplash generate
    Creating WatirSplash project directory structure to C:/example_project/ui-test...
    Done
    
After that the directory structure will be something like this:
    C:\example_project
    ├───doc
    ├───lib
    ├───test
    └───ui-test
        └───spec
    
The contents of that ui-test directory will be:
    ui-test\config.rb
    ui-test\environment.rb
    
    ui-test\spec
    ui-test\spec\application_helper.rb
    ui-test\spec\dummy_spec.rb
    ui-test\spec\spec.opts
    
Just check out all the files to see some example code and comments in it and execute dummy_spec.rb
to verify that everything works correctly:
    spec spec\dummy_spec.rb

You have to create your tests under spec directory so RSpec would load spec.opts automatically.
You can have whatever directory structure under this directory just make sure that
all test files have _spec.rb in the end of their filename (if using default RSpec options).
    
== USAGE FOR MULTIPLE PROJECTS:

Usually you're going to write tests for multiple different projects. It would be shame if you'd
going to create all those common helper methods again for different projects or just copy-paste
the code from previous project's helpers. This is the place where ui-test-common comes into play.
    
ui-test-common would be a place where you can hold all your common functionality in helper
modules/methods/classes and then use those things in your tests so you won't have multiple
copies of similar or even same code in different places. So it helps you
to keep DRY (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself).
    
After finding yourself in a situation where a new project comes into play, then execute
generate_common command once somewhere in a higher level of a directory tree than your project's ui-test directory
to generate ui-test-common directory:
    C:\example_project>cd ..

    C:\>watirsplash generate_common
    Creating WatirSplash common project directory structure to C:/ui-test-common...
    Done

It has a structure of:
    C:\ui-test-common
    └───lib
    
    ui-test-common\config.rb
    ui-test-common\environment.rb
    ui-test-common\lib
    ui-test-common\lib\common_application_helper.rb
    
In environment.rb under project/ui-test you shall add common functionality to your project.
Uncomment the following line:
    WatirSplash::Util.load_common
    
This gives you by default the access to every method in ui-test-common/lib/common_application_helper.rb
    
Now, in ui-test-common/config.rb change the URL to your hostname and in project's config.rb:
    URL = Config.full_url("/relative_path")
    
This gives you the ability to have host and port written only in one place.
    
Now move all the common functionality away from your project's files into ui-test-common files and start testing.
From now on, add all common functionality into ui-test-common/lib

== KNOWN PROBLEMS (& SOLUTIONS)

=== PROBLEM #1

If you see the following error message when running watirsplash:
    R6034. An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly.
 
Solution:
    This is caused by ImageMagick.
    Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package to solve the problem.

== COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 Jarmo Pertman. See LICENSE for details.