Gauge example in Go

This is an example project for doing web automation testing with Gauge. This project tests some of the functionalities of the active admin demo app. This app is hosted as a Java WAR (with embedded Jetty).

Running this example

The tests are run on Firefox by default.

Prerequisites

This example requires the following softwares to run.

• Go
• Gauge
• Gauge Go plugin
  • can be installed using gauge --install go
• Chrome driver
  • Download from here
  • On Mac: brew install chromedriver
• Selenium server standalone
  • Available in resources directory of this repo. If you want a different version of it, it can be downloaded from here
• Clone this repository in GOPATH.
• godep github.com/tebeka/selenium

To set up the Selenium grid

java -jar <path_to_selenium_server_jar> -role hub

This uses port 4444 by default for its web interface.

To set up a node, run

java -jar <path_to_selenium_server_jar> -role node

Read more on setting selenium grid here.

Setting up the System Under Test (SUT)

• Download activeadmin-demo.war
• Bring up the SUT by executing the below command

java -jar activeadmin-demo.war

• The SUT should now be available at http://localhost:8080/

Execution

gauge specs

This uses Chrome as default browser for specs execution.

Topics covered in the example

• Specification, Scenario, Step, Concepts and Context Steps
• Table parameters
• Using External datasource (special param)
• Using tags
• Using Gauge with webdriver