Ruby approach

I dedicated myself to writing the lightest framework I could for testing an external site using Ruby, RSpec and Capybara.

You can see the results at https://github.com/durrantm/basic_app

The test file looks like this:

$ cat spec/foo_spec.rb 
require 'rspec'
require 'capybara'
require 'capybara/rspec'
require 'capybara/dsl'

Capybara.run_server = false
Capybara.default_driver = :selenium
Capybara.app_host = 'http://www.google.com'

Capybara.register_driver :chrome do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome)
end

root='/'

describe 'Loads up correctly', :type => :feature do
  before :each do
    Capybara.current_driver = :chrome
  end
  it 'Has the expected search input field' do
    visit( root )
    search_button_on_page=find(:css, "input[aria-label='Search']")
    expect(search_button_on_page).to be_true
  end
  it 'Shows results' do
    visit( root )
    find(:css, "input[aria-label='Search']").set("123")
    expect(page).to have_content 'results'
  end
end

The following branches show examples of common tasks.
I used branches to try and keep each example as light weight as possible.
This is as of 7/8/2016

* master
  multiple_domains
  using_page_object
  weather_with_login