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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices Build a powerful, stable, and automated test suite using Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982707
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dima Kovalenko Dima Kovalenko
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing the First Test FREE CHAPTER 2. The Spaghetti Pattern 3. Refactoring Tests 4. Data-driven Testing 5. Stabilizing the Tests 6. Testing the Behavior 7. The Page Objects Pattern 8. Growing the Test Suite A. Getting Started with Selenium Index

Running the Cucumber suite


Now that we are familiar with the project layout, let's execute some tests. To start, let's install the Cucumber gem. So, run the following command in the terminal:

gem install cucumber

After the gem has been installed, we have several commands we can use to run our tests from the root of the working directory:

  1. To execute the whole suite in the default profile, we simply run the following command in our terminal from the root of our workspace:

    cucumber
    

    The Cucumber gem will automatically find the features directory. If your features are located in another directory, you will need to specify the path to that directory like this:

    cucumber some/other/directory
    
  2. Use the -p flag to specify a different profile at the time of execution. To run our whole test suite in the ci profile, we can use this command:

    cucumber –p ci
    
  3. We do not need to execute the whole test suite every single time. If we want to run only a single file or all the feature files in a directory, we just...

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