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Testing Browser History Navigation Functionality in Capybara

This test suite validates the browser navigation functionality in Capybara, specifically focusing on the go_back method. It ensures proper page history management and content verification during backward navigation in JavaScript-enabled sessions.

Test Coverage Overview

The test suite covers the essential browser history navigation functionality through Capybara’s go_back method.

Key areas tested include:

Page navigation sequence verification
Content validation across multiple pages
Browser history state management
JavaScript session handling

Implementation Analysis

The testing approach employs Capybara’s session management capabilities with JavaScript support enabled. The implementation follows a clear pattern of visit-verify-navigate-verify, ensuring proper state transitions between pages.

Technical implementation features:

Session-based navigation testing
Content assertion checks
JavaScript-required specification

Technical Details

Testing tools and configuration:

Capybara test framework
RSpec expectation syntax
JavaScript-enabled driver requirement
Session-based test execution
Content matcher assertions

Best Practices Demonstrated

The test demonstrates several quality testing practices for browser navigation verification.

Notable practices include:

Clear test isolation and setup
Explicit state verification
Proper assertion sequencing
Driver capability specification
Focused test scope

teamcapybara/capybara

lib/capybara/spec/session/go_back_spec.rb

            
# frozen_string_literal: true

Capybara::SpecHelper.spec '#go_back', requires: [:js] do
  it 'should fetch a response from the driver from the previous page' do
    @session.visit('/')
    expect(@session).to have_content('Hello world!')
    @session.visit('/foo')
    expect(@session).to have_content('Another World')
    @session.go_back
    expect(@session).to have_content('Hello world!')
  end
end