Re: [wtr-general] Opening a specific copy of firefox

2012-12-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Joshua Homer countjoshing...@gmail.comwrote: So, I wanted to know if there is a way to bypass the timeout or change it to like 3 minutes or something? I understand now, but I do not know the answer. You should ask at Selenium or Webdriver Google group, or post

[wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Kapil Rajak
Thank you very much for your detailed information. What I was thinking to drive IE with watir classic. but again I don't want to fail at the end. and come out with that IE is not working perfectly by watir-classic. Need your affirmation which will give me confidence to walk out with watir

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Kapil Rajak kapil1089thek...@gmail.comwrote: I want to work perfectly with ie, chrome and ff on windows. I am pretty sure you will not find a tool that will work perfectly. All software has bugs. Željko -- Before posting, please read

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Kapil Rajak
ha ha, Am sorry for using the word 'perfect', I meant to say, any driver/software which is not known to have any such issue. On Thursday, 6 December 2012 14:57:56 UTC+5:30, Željko Filipin wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Kapil Rajak kapil108...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I want

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Kapil Rajak kapil1089thek...@gmail.comwrote: ha ha, Am sorry for using the word 'perfect', I meant to say, any driver/software which is not known to have any such issue. You never said what the actual problem is. The Stack Overflow question that you have

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Kapil Rajak kapil1089thek...@gmail.comwrote: The biggest problem is that the error doesnt occur at same place or consistently, so I could never catch the error exactly. So your question is: is watir-classic better IE driver than watir-webdriver? In my

[wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Kapil Rajak
But don't you get issues like I mentioned? focus issue/click issue? if not why-I mean what can be possible reason for the reproduction of the issue? if yes how do you solve that then? On Friday, 30 November 2012 17:10:52 UTC+5:30, Kapil Rajak wrote: I was using watir-webdriver for

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Kapil Rajak kapil1089thek...@gmail.comwrote: But don't you get issues like I mentioned? Yes. From my experience, IEdriver has the most problems that are hard to fix. (I have a lot of experience with Firefox and Chrome drivers, both pretty stable. I do not have a

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread Kapil Rajak
I got it Željko, thanks, my last two question, 1. what can be the possible reason/explanation for the issue I am getting when I am running thousands of cases, the execution becomes idle, I mean I can see no progress is going on browser, but when I click one of the browser which was doing

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Switching between watir and webdriver

2012-12-06 Thread bis
What are the actual errors if you are using xpath there could be problems with that if they are timeouts it would be a different error Without an actual error especially since they are intermittent the best I could offer you is to bump the implicit wait for only ie and see if this helps Sent

Re: [wtr-general] Watir and Quibids.com

2012-12-06 Thread TommyW
Thanks for the info, Zeljko. That's going to take some studying to understand. one more question and might be a simple answer but after spending a few hours looking for code example I found nothing. How do I simiply examine the value of a certain element? For example, on the quibid home

Re: [wtr-general] Watir and Quibids.com

2012-12-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:25 PM, TommyW tommy6206...@yahoo.com wrote: How do I simiply examine the value of a certain element? You need an inspector tool. Most browsers have one build in. Right click an element and select inspect element in context menu that appears. Željko -- Before

Re: [wtr-general] Watir and Quibids.com

2012-12-06 Thread TommyW
yes, I use the IE inspector tool but how do you do that in Watir programatically. I'm thinking it's something like: b.text_field(:id,abcedf).value? that's where I'm stuck. :) On Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:41:10 PM UTC-6, Željko Filipin wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:25 PM, TommyW