rspec for "transactions"

[Dan Franko]

Hello.  I've been struggling with this for quite some time and I'm hoping someone can help out.  The answer is probably right in front of me!  I'm using rspec with watir-webdriver for regression tests and I want to do something simple like create a ticket and then lookup that same ticket in an isolated manner.  Is this possible and what would be the best way to go about it?  I can do this with a differently scoped variable, but that doesn't appear to be the correct way to approach this.  Thanks!

describe "Ticketing system",:template do

before(:all) do

@b = Watir::Browser.start("google.com",:chrome)

end

it 'can create a ticket' do

@b.link(:text => "Create ticket")

ticket = @b.div(:id => "ticket").text

expect(ticket).to eql(123456)

end

it 'can lookup a created ticket' do

@b.text_field(:id => "search").set(ticket)

end

after(:all) do

@b.close rescue nil

end

end

[Jon Rowe]

The traditional way to do this would be to create a ticket in the second test without going through the browser (so using whatever database ORM/API you have), then check you can look it up. This avoids sharing state between the tests and creating a dependency between them.

Jon Rowe

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ma...@jonrowe.co.uk

jonrowe.co.uk

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