Author: Sachin Shintre

Feature testing is high level testing that allows us to go through our entire system, ensuring that each and every component is working perfectly fine. The test-cases written for it are termed as feature specs, which requires capybara.

In this blog, we will be focussing on writing feature specs using capybara with rspec. More specifically, we are going to look at capybara key features as well as, how capybara specs looks like.

We as a developer are mainly focussed about the underlying things, but we should also consider end user’s view. So, Capybara comes to rescue, it lets you write yours test-cases from user’s perceptive i.e, how end users would interact with your system. It is a ruby gem build on the top of underlying web-based driver and these drivers drive our browsers based on what our master ‘capybara’ says.

There are multiple web-drivers supported by capybara, some of…