specimen

Doing the same things over and over again in test automation was the initial inspiration of coming up with a gem which will help me with:

• setting up a new test automation project, including README, Gemfile, rubocop.yml, etc...
• run Cucumber and RSpec tests with configs that make sense (e.g. parallel execution, reporting)
• provide a Rails like templating approach in terms of convention over configuration to provide a maintainable base for API or UI tests using RSpec and/or Cucumber.

Beware

At the point of writing the README and setting the repo to public, the gem does not do much yet so the current functionality is minimal, not optimized and not tested :). Hopefully that will change in the future.

# install Specimen gem
$> gem install specimen

# creates a new project relative to the current working directory. Will ask for a project name.
$> specimen init

# creates a new project 'foobar' relative to the current working directory.
# Inside /foobar you will find the default dir structures for Cucumber and RSpec tests and a few more files
$> specimen init -n foobar

# look at the command help
$> specimen help init
Usage:
  specimen init

Options:
  --name, -n, [--project-name=PROJECT_NAME]
              [--api-only], [--no-api-only], [--skip-api-only]  # Default: false  
              [--cucumber], [--no-cucumber], [--skip-cucumber]  # Default: true

Known issues

• tests are missing
• generated Gemfile contains Watir and Selenium webdriver, it should be only one of them.