Being a QA engineer is a continuous struggle in\u00a0finding the right resources in order to get the job done easier and more efficiently.\u00a0If you are planning to\u00a0write automated tests in RSpec (Ruby’s testing framework), then you should take a look over these gems. Please notice that I am most of the time automating backend tests only, so the libraries I am using are for this purpose mainly.<\/p>\n
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If you want to make API calls on RESTful endpoints this should definitely\u00a0be your choice. This library is easy to use and the response includes code, cookies, headers and body.<\/p>\n Let me show you how to make some calls (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE):<\/p>\n Now you simply use this response for your purposes (response.code<\/strong><\/em>, response.body<\/strong><\/em>, etc.).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If I told you about RestClient, then the next one\u00a0should be\u00a0json<\/strong>. RESTful services will return JSON format in body most of the times so you should parse that response to be easier to work with.<\/p>\n See how simple this is? You only\u00a0JSON.parse<\/strong> that response and that’s all!<\/p>\n Since we are talking about JSON, let me show you how to build one:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n JSON and XML are the most used formats in web development. So you probably guessed that now I will show you some tricks on how to use XML in your awesome tests.<\/p>\n When I have installed this gem on my ubuntu (v14.04) virtual machine, I have had the following error:<\/p>\n But this was quickly fixed after installing ruby-dev and\u00a0ruby1.9.1-dev:<\/p>\n Now let’s say you have the following XML:<\/p>\n If you want to access the values for\u00a0username<\/strong> and\u00a0password<\/strong>, simply do this:<\/p>\n Also, you can use\u00a0xpath<\/strong> instead of\u00a0css<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Let me show you how to build the previous XML file using Nokogiri:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\ngem install rest-client<\/code><\/p>\nresponse = RestClient.get(url, header){|response, request, result | response}\r\nresponse = RestClient.put(url, payload, header){|response, request, result | response}\r\nresponse = RestClient.post(url, payload, header){|response, request, result | response}\r\nresponse = RestClient.delete(url, header){|response, request, result | response}\r\n<\/pre>\n2. JSON<\/h3>\n
gem install json<\/code><\/p>\nresponse = RestClient.post(url, payload, header){|response, request, result | response}\r\nparsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)\r\nexpect(parsed_response['errors'][0]['message']).to eq \"Not Found\"<\/pre>\npayload_hash = {\r\n :key1 => :value1,\r\n :key2 => :value2\r\n }\r\npayload_json = payload_hash.to_json<\/pre>\n<\/h3>\n
3. Nokogiri<\/h3>\n
gem install nokogiri<\/code><\/p>\nERROR: Error installing nokogiri:\r\nERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.\r\n\r\n\/usr\/bin\/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb\r\n\/usr\/lib\/ruby\/1.9.1\/rubygems\/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)\r\nfrom \/usr\/lib\/ruby\/1.9.1\/rubygems\/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'\r\nfrom extconf.rb:4:in `'<\/pre>\n
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
\nsudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev<\/code><\/p>\n<Envelope xmlns=\"http:\/\/schemas.xmlsoap.org\/soap\/envelope\/\">\r\n <Body>\r\n <Login>\r\n <username>username<\/name>\r\n <password>secret_password<\/password>\r\n <\/Login>\r\n <\/Body>\r\n<\/Envelope><\/pre>\n
your_file = Nokogiri::XML(your_XML_file)\r\nyour_file.remove_namespaces!\r\nputs your_file.css('username').text\r\nputs your_file.css('password').text<\/pre>\nbuilder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|\r\n xml.Envelope {\r\n xml.Body {\r\n xml.Login {\r\n xml.username \"username\"\r\n xml.password \"secret_password\"\r\n }\r\n }\r\n }\r\nend\r\nputs builder.to_xml<\/pre>\n<\/h3>\n
4. Sinatra<\/h3>\n