[wtr-general] Re: Standalone app testing?

[Chuck van der Linden]

On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 5:11:29 AM UTC-8, 4xga...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I am investigating Watir and would like to know if I can use it to test 
> standalone apps.  (Example: I want to learn by 'testing' the Windows 
> calculator.)
> I searched 'GUI' and 'Standalone' with no hits... 
>

On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 7:23:32 AM UTC-8, John Fitisoff wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, Watir's a browser testing tool. It doesn't work with 
> desktop apps, just browsers.
>
>
Yeah, the closest you could come is the tool that comes up when you google 
"calculator' or an online calculator such as this one 
http://web2.0calc.com/  Writing code to 'test' one of those would be a not 
bad way of getting started. 

You'd have to look at other tools to test 'native' applications, watir (as 
the name "Web Application Testing In Ruby" implies) is limited to doing 
browser automation for testing web applications. 

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Re: [wtr-general] Re: Standalone app testing?

[Eric Christopherson]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Chuck van der Linden 
wrote:

> On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 5:11:29 AM UTC-8, 4xga...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I am investigating Watir and would like to know if I can use it to test
>> standalone apps.  (Example: I want to learn by 'testing' the Windows
>> calculator.)
>> I searched 'GUI' and 'Standalone' with no hits...
>>
>
Off the top of my head, I know of SikuliX, which supports JRuby (only in
version >= 1.1.0). I don't know how actively developed it is.

Alternately, I'm not sure what (if any) specific testing ability exists in
these tools, and they use their own languages instead of Ruby, but you
could try a general GUI automation tool like AutoHotkey or AutoIt.


>
> On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 7:23:32 AM UTC-8, John Fitisoff wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, Watir's a browser testing tool. It doesn't work with
>> desktop apps, just browsers.
>>
>>
> Yeah, the closest you could come is the tool that comes up when you google
> "calculator' or an online calculator such as this one
> http://web2.0calc.com/  Writing code to 'test' one of those would be a
> not bad way of getting started.
>
> You'd have to look at other tools to test 'native' applications, watir (as
> the name "Web Application Testing In Ruby" implies) is limited to doing
> browser automation for testing web applications.
>
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[wtr-general] Re: Standalone app testing?

[John Fitisoff]

Unfortunately, Watir's a browser testing tool. It doesn't work with desktop 
apps, just browsers.

On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 5:11:29 AM UTC-8, 4xga...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I am investigating Watir and would like to know if I can use it to test 
> standalone apps.  (Example: I want to learn by 'testing' the Windows 
> calculator.)
> I searched 'GUI' and 'Standalone' with no hits... 
>

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