This talk has been delivered at London Tester Gathering #TesterGathering on 26 June, 2013. This talk was all about demo of Behat and Cucumber with headless drivers Zombie and PhantomJS (Poltergeist). Event Url : http://www.meetup.com/agiletesting/events/123049092/

1. Headless BDD
Shashikant Jagtap
Twitter: @Shashikant86
Blogs: http://shashikantjagtap.net
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here represent my
own/personal views and not those of my current employer
or previous employers

2. Topics
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BDD Tools + Test Frameworks + Drivers
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Benefits of using Headless Drivers with
BDD tools
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Zombie and Phantomjs
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Demo Behat + Mink + Zombie

Demo Cucumber + Capybara + Poltergeist
Hashtag #TesterGathering

3. BDD
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BDD Tools [ Behat, Cucumber]
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Web Acceptance Testing Frameworks
[Mink, Capybara]

Drivers [Selenium, Watir, RakeTest,
Goutte, Zombie, Phantomjs etc etc]

4. Browser Vs Headless
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There are few drivers which pop up
browser to run scenarios
e.g Selenium, WebDriver, Watir
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There are some which don't have real
browsers but they are headless
browsers
e.g Phantomjs, Zombie

5. Why Headless?

Fast

No XVFB, X11, XVNC etc etc on Linux
servers

HTTP, Cookies and Network Traffic

Screenshots and JavaScript execution

Error Detections on Page [JS Error]

Debug Options

6. Zombie

Headless Driver with full support to
JavaScript
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Uses Node.js, NPM, C++ Compiler &
Python
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Installation: OSX [Xcode, HomeBrew]
 GitHub: https://github.com/assaf/zombie

7. PhantomJS

PhantoJS is Headless Webkit with full
JavaScript support.
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Multipurpose
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Install on Mac OSX
$ brew install phantomjs
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Website: http://phantomjs.org/index.html

8. Headless BDD Live Demo

Behat + Mink + Zombie
GitHub:
https://github.com/Shashikant86/Behat-Zombie

Cucumber + CapyBara + Poltergeist
GitHub:
https://github.com/Shashikant86/Poltergeist-Demo

9. THANK YOU

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