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Testing a website on different versions of IE

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Nat

So, no matter how much you argue that it’s an ancient, irrelevant browser; there’s no way you can wriggle out of having to test your web app against IE6 on WinXP. But… trying to find a machine with it lying … Continue reading →

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How to connect to an Oracle database in IronRuby

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Nat

After spending a few hours trying to connect to an oracle database in ironruby using various gems, I gave up. None of the gems out there would work, each for a different reason. It was time to write my own … Continue reading →

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Explaining Watir, Selenium and WebDriver

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Nat

Something I seem to be explaining to people all the time… the relationships between Watir, Watir “2.0″, Selenium, Selenium “2.0″ and WebDriver. Alister Scott has done an excellent job of explaining the impact of WebDriver on Selenium and Watir and … Continue reading →

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Testing redirects with ruby

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Nat

—UPDATE— Since writing this post, I’ve put together a gem called ‘responsalizr‘ which is a way better solution than what follows in this post. Read about it here. And now back to the original post… Testing redirects from a web … Continue reading →

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Remove junk from IronRuby cucumber output

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Nat

When running cucumber tests under IronRuby, your output will be full of junk like the following: Feature: example feature Scenario: a scenario←[90m     # features\testoutput.feature:3←[0m ←[32mGiven some test setup←[90m  # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:1←[0m←[0m ←[32mWhen I do something←[90m    # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:5←[0m←[0m ←[32mThen something happens←[90m # … Continue reading →

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TURN: test::unit reporting as it should have been…

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Nat

TURN (“Test::Unit Reporter (New)”) aims to fix test::unit‘s default output. Instead of waiting until the end of a test run for failure details, Turn displays failures immediately. It looks promising… Bookmark to:

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RQuery: A thin layer of JQuery over watir/selenium

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Nat

So I went to a presentation today, run by Aidy Lewis and Josh Chisholm about Josh’s new RQuery project; here’s a braindump of what I remember. RQuery is not supposed to be a competitor to Selenium or Watir but builds … Continue reading →

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