[wtr-general] Re: Using Excel Files?
If you're looking at an Excel driven framework, then I'd suggest taking a look at Rasta: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rasta/ I've not used it, but it's certainly best of class for working with Excel and Watir. Charley Baker blog: http://blog.charleybaker.org/ Lead Developer, Watir, http://wtr.rubyforge.org QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Juston justondav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm a Java/C++ programmer and a Ruby noob and I'm getting ready to build a testing application that would use Watir to test a set of web applications. As there are about 6 applications with similar interfaces but different behavior I'd like to recycle as much code as possible. The system I have designed winds up reading from a file and creating a set of objects that represent use cases which, when executed, go through the motions of clicking, setting and so on. I've noticed there are a few posts here and there that discuss reading test instructions from excel and that caught my eye. The questions I have are what is in these excel files, is it some sort of domain language or it is code that is run at runtime? Is there a tutorial? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[wtr-general] Re: Using Excel Files?
In our tests we just read data from these excel spreadsheets then we use that data to drive our testcases. There is file out there called xls.rb, that reads from an excel spreadsheet. we use this library to do all of our reading. On Jun 8, 12:59 pm, Charley Baker charley.ba...@gmail.com wrote: If you're looking at an Excel driven framework, then I'd suggest taking a look at Rasta:http://rubyforge.org/projects/rasta/ I've not used it, but it's certainly best of class for working with Excel and Watir. Charley Baker blog:http://blog.charleybaker.org/ Lead Developer, Watir,http://wtr.rubyforge.org QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Juston justondav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm a Java/C++ programmer and a Ruby noob and I'm getting ready to build a testing application that would use Watir to test a set of web applications. As there are about 6 applications with similar interfaces but different behavior I'd like to recycle as much code as possible. The system I have designed winds up reading from a file and creating a set of objects that represent use cases which, when executed, go through the motions of clicking, setting and so on. I've noticed there are a few posts here and there that discuss reading test instructions from excel and that caught my eye. The questions I have are what is in these excel files, is it some sort of domain language or it is code that is run at runtime? Is there a tutorial? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[wtr-general] Re: Using Excel Files?
That actually makes a lot of sense for storing data. I misunderstood what I was reading, it sounded like people were driving their run-time behavior out of excel. I guess on that note its pretty safe to assume most people kind of Hard-Code their test procedure into the logic of the program and then use excel files to just provide data? On Jun 8, 11:58 am, Loft_Tester aaronr...@gmail.com wrote: In our tests we just read data from these excel spreadsheets then we use that data to drive our testcases. There is file out there called xls.rb, that reads from an excel spreadsheet. we use this library to do all of our reading. On Jun 8, 12:59 pm, Charley Baker charley.ba...@gmail.com wrote: If you're looking at an Excel driven framework, then I'd suggest taking a look at Rasta:http://rubyforge.org/projects/rasta/ I've not used it, but it's certainly best of class for working with Excel and Watir. Charley Baker blog:http://blog.charleybaker.org/ Lead Developer, Watir,http://wtr.rubyforge.org QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Juston justondav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm a Java/C++ programmer and a Ruby noob and I'm getting ready to build a testing application that would use Watir to test a set of web applications. As there are about 6 applications with similar interfaces but different behavior I'd like to recycle as much code as possible. The system I have designed winds up reading from a file and creating a set of objects that represent use cases which, when executed, go through the motions of clicking, setting and so on. I've noticed there are a few posts here and there that discuss reading test instructions from excel and that caught my eye. The questions I have are what is in these excel files, is it some sort of domain language or it is code that is run at runtime? Is there a tutorial? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[wtr-general] Re: Using Excel Files?
Excel, for us is used to just supply data for the test. On Jun 8, 2:18 pm, Juston justondav...@gmail.com wrote: That actually makes a lot of sense for storing data. I misunderstood what I was reading, it sounded like people were driving their run-time behavior out of excel. I guess on that note its pretty safe to assume most people kind of Hard-Code their test procedure into the logic of the program and then use excel files to just provide data? On Jun 8, 11:58 am, Loft_Tester aaronr...@gmail.com wrote: In our tests we just read data from these excel spreadsheets then we use that data to drive our testcases. There is file out there called xls.rb, that reads from an excel spreadsheet. we use this library to do all of our reading. On Jun 8, 12:59 pm, Charley Baker charley.ba...@gmail.com wrote: If you're looking at an Excel driven framework, then I'd suggest taking a look at Rasta:http://rubyforge.org/projects/rasta/ I've not used it, but it's certainly best of class for working with Excel and Watir. Charley Baker blog:http://blog.charleybaker.org/ Lead Developer, Watir,http://wtr.rubyforge.org QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Juston justondav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm a Java/C++ programmer and a Ruby noob and I'm getting ready to build a testing application that would use Watir to test a set of web applications. As there are about 6 applications with similar interfaces but different behavior I'd like to recycle as much code as possible. The system I have designed winds up reading from a file and creating a set of objects that represent use cases which, when executed, go through the motions of clicking, setting and so on. I've noticed there are a few posts here and there that discuss reading test instructions from excel and that caught my eye. The questions I have are what is in these excel files, is it some sort of domain language or it is code that is run at runtime? Is there a tutorial? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir General group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
