RSpec
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Testmo works with any test automation tool, including the popular RSpec BDD & unit testing framework for Ruby. This quickstart guide provides an overview of how to report RSpec & Ruby test automation results to Testmo.
RSpec can generate JUnit-style XML files, which has become a standard format to exchange test results between tools. You simply need to install the popular rspec_junit_formatter gem.
This will run your RSpec tests and automatically write all test results to an XML file in the results directory. You can learn more about available configuration options in the gem's documentation.
To submit your test results to Testmo, you simply use our cross-platform testmo CLI tool. The CLI tool is distributed as an NPM package and is easy to install on any system. Simply install our official @testmo/testmo-cli NPM package:
We can now send the RSpec test results to Testmo. To do this, make sure to generate an API key in Testmo from your profile page. The API key is used to authenticate with Testmo to send the results. We can then use the testmo CLI tool so submit our results (note that we first set the TESTMO_TOKEN variable, which the tool expects):
That's it! 🎉 This will automatically analyze the XML result file, create a new test run in Testmo, submit all tests & results and mark the run as completed. There's no need to manually create any tests, map tests or IDs or build any custom API code. Everything is handled automatically for you.
In the above example, we first launched RSpec to generate the XML file and then used our CLI tool to submit the results in a second step. As an improvement to the above example, we can ask our CLI tool to launch RSpec (testmo then starts and waits for RSpec to finish). This has the following additional benefits:
a) Capture full console output and send it to Testmo b) Accurately measure test times c) Record the RSpec exit code
Now that you are familiar with submitting your RSpec & Ruby test results to Testmo, you might also find the following additional examples, topics and references useful for more advanced workflows.
