Archive for the ‘watir’ Category
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
A new version of FireWatir has been released. This includes some fixes related to Firefox 3 but more importantly, it marks the merger of FireWatir and Watir projects, allowing for tighter coupling of methods and functionality between the two, allowing you to write less code =)
To use FireWatir, you will ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
In an effort to get more actively involved with the open source community, I've recently starting working with another colleague on a new site called justaddwatir.com. This is an exciting collaboration of examples for web application testing in ruby (watir - pronounced "water").
Watir is a simple open-source library for ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Recently I attended Railscamp 08 in Sydney Australia for a weekend of code, beer and bzflag. For my 'project' I decided on brushing up my my Ruby skills and constructing a simple framework from which I could structure watir test cases.
Specifically I wanted to achieve the following:
Create some form of ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
By now you've probably heard of watir or Web Application Testing In Ruby, a great automation framework which supports Microsoft Internet Explorer, and recently came in at number 3 as a popular oss tool on this blog.
I've been using this tool mostly from a windows box, and knew of the ...
Posted in Ruby, Automation, watir | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Recently I noticed some discussion in the watir user group about trying to capture screenshots when running automated tests.
For such a simple requirement, it's frustrating that solutions available either cost money (such as the purchase of SnagIt) or are a tad complicated in implementation requiring the installation of some out ...
Posted in Ruby, Tools, Programming, watir | 3 Comments »
