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My quest to get the maximum coverage & diagnostics from the leanest possible tests has reached a new level.
This is a Rails functional test on an HTML form:
user = users(:Moses)
get :edit_user, :id => user.id
assert_xhtml do
form :action => '/users' do
fieldset do
legend 'Personal Information'
label 'First name'
input :type => 'text',
:name => 'user[first_name]'
:value => user.first_name
end
end
end
That's all. The assertion expects a form with a given action, containing a fieldset, a legend, a label, and a populated text input field. The assertion forgives any other details, such as intervening structural tags, and complains if any required detail is missing, out of order, or ill-formed.
You test HTML by writing an example of what you expect, excluding details you don't care about.
When it fails, the assertion will print out your reference HTML, and your sample HTML from your web page.
The assertion faults if...
- any attribute does not match exactly
- any text content does not match, stripped
- any node is not found at all
- any node is found out of order
The assertion does not fail if
- nodes contain un-specified attributes
- the DOM contains any un-specified tags (<html>, <div>, etc.)
Here's the assertion checking that a list appears in collating order:
assert_xhtml SAMPLE_LIST do
ul :style => 'font-size: 18' do
li 'model' do
li 'Billings criteria'
li 'Billings report'
li 'Sales report'
end
end
end
The assertion takes a block that renders into a Nokogiri::HTML::Builder. Any HTML it can build, you can specify by example.
That freedom causes two issues: The 'self' context is different inside this block, so you must pass variables in as closures. And an element with the same name as a Builder method, such as .select, need a bang: .select!
Get the assertion, from assert2-0.3.8.gem, with these incantations:
gem install assert2 nokogiri
require 'assert2/xhtml' # for Test::Unit::TestCase and derivatives
Those of you using RSpec will know how to apply this Gist:
Good hunting!
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