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Testing blur() events in Cucumber/Capybara

• published date: 2016-10-10 16:18
• keywords: [“blur”, “capybara”, “cucumber”, “focus”, “send_keys”, “steps”, “testing”, “using”]
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After banging my head on this problem for a long time, chasing blog posts, stackoverflow, lots of opinions, bug reports, and so on, I finally asked my workmates, and together we arrived at a method that works.

The Problem

There is apparently a bug, although it’s marked as INVALID in bugzilla, that prevents focus() and blur() events from being executed directly when the test browser is not focused.

The links I chased:

• https://github.com/mattheworiordan/jquery-focus-selenium-webkit-fix
• https://github.com/mattheworiordan/jquery-focus-selenium-webkit-fix/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/jquery.focus.test-fix.js
• https://makandracards.com/makandra/12661-how-to-solve-selenium-focus-issues

And many many more…

What worked

The most obviously glaring thing to do is NOT make this event happen via executing a JS script, but by simply SENDING A TAB.

Here’s the step:

When(/^I unfocus field (.*?)$/) do |field_name|
  field = page.find_field(field_name)
  field.native.send_keys :tab
end

That did the trick, and now we all have an uncle Bob.

Thanks Nic and JD