Does anyone know of such a project?
The tests were also flaky as hell but that was more to do with poor environment management. That, admittedly, was also easier to fix in python.
It provides a "page object model" implementation on top of Capybara, so you can define a model for each page you want to test, which stores the page's relative URL, and has references to all the elements on the page you care about, and methods for all the interactions you want to do with that page.
So for example, you might have a "LoginPage" model, which contains the following:
class LoginPage < SitePrism::Page
set_url "/login"
element :username_input, '.username-input'
element :password_input, '.password-input'
element :submit, '.submit-button'
def login(username, password)
load # Load the page URL in the Selenium instance
username_input.set(username) # Fill in username
password_input.set(password) # Fill in password
submit.click # Click submit
end
end
login_page = LoginPage.new
login_page.login('whoever', 'what3v3r')
I should write up how we have it set up at some point as we have our own app-specific framework on top of SitePrism which provides some useful abstractions to make it quicker to develop tests.
The one downside is that the developers only seem to tag official releases once in a blue moon; despite the github repo being well updated, the last push to Maven was more than half a year ago, and so depends on a rather old version of Selenium.
This one is a rough test automation, mostly used for filling in forms etc during development http://kopy.io/LMBKt (old one but to hand) handy to be able to open, login and fill in a form in a few seconds that by hand would take minutes.
I find that way works as the abstraction is only one level removed and I can just throw in methods that relate to that project.