Tag Archives: WATIR

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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Lessons from a watir success story

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Nat

There aren’t enough UI test automation success stories documented on the net, so here’s my contribution. This post is about  how we started with zero automated UI testing capability, and how a couple of months later we had the capability … Continue reading →

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Debugging cucumber tests with ruby-debug

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Nat

Testing with cucumber blows test/unit out of the water, apart from one small aspect… I can’t use the Netbeans’ GUI debugger. The Netbeans debugger has been a joy to use, but sadly I have to say goodbye. So I’m left … Continue reading →

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Screencast: Beginning with Cucumber

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Nat

We have close to 1,000 watir tests that we’re beginning to migrate from test/unit to cucumber. The “Beginning with Cucumber” Railscast is a great introduction to how cucumber works – it’s quite rails-centric, but you’ll get the idea. Bookmark to:

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Quick and easy Watir test suites with Test::Unit

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Nat

A test team usually has a need for a few fixed test suites, eg: a sanity suite or a suite which contains all tests for a full run. There’s usually also a need to be able to create suites with … Continue reading →

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Watir’s @browser.url returning the previous page’s url

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Nat

I’ve come across a page which, when I navigate to it and ask it for it’s url (using @browser.url) gives me the previous page’s url. Very frustrating. To get around this, you can use direct DOM manipulation. Here’s a call … Continue reading →

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Kill process by name using Ruby on Windows

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Nat

Though it is possible in ruby to kill a process by its ID in ruby, it isn’t possible to kill processes by name, I guess because it would work differently across operating systems. This is a pain when using watir/firewatir, … Continue reading →

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