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speaker.md

Michał Czyż

Contact details

• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @cs3b
• Website or Blog: http://www.webout.eu
• Selleo

Speaker bio

Michał Czyż has been working professionally as a web developer since 2007, and from the very beginning of his professional career, his choice is Ruby on Rails. In 2010 he became a team leader, helping his teammates to follow the path to improvement. These experiences gave birth to several open source, documentation and testing solutions, that are used with great success in Selleo, where he currently works. Michał helped organize code retreat in 2011 and he is also one of the core members of SRUG - a local Ruby users group community, where he is known for evangelizing best practices.

talk.md

Testing as a Chameleon

• Desired talk duration: 15 minutes

Abstract

I hope you are all familar with Capybara - acceptance test framework for web applications. All in all Capybara is a great tool, but it's ability to mimic user behaviour is limited to very basic browser manipulation. Writting efficent and maintainable end user perspective tests requires more than that. Thus, some people found Cucumber as tool which can help overcome these limitations. But Cucumber is not perfect - it takes a lot of time to define and maintain all these steps. Hence, I would like to introduce you to Kameleon - a pure Ruby enchancement for Capybara.