[wtr-general] Re: Organization and execution of test cases.

2009-04-07 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 7, 6:13 am, JArkelen johnvanarke...@gmail.com wrote: In most cases I use Rake to execute mulitple tests. Which is great advice, but might as well be speaking greek to someone just starting work with Watir and Ruby. If you are a programmer type I can probably tell you Rake is Ruby's

[wtr-general] Re: Organization and execution of test cases.

2009-04-07 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 7, 5:58 am, Željko Filipin zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 14:41, James jgcpal...@gmail.com wrote: is there any sort of framework/application/gem http://github.com/bret/watircraft/tree/master +1 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[wtr-general] Re: How to know if the checkbox is checked or not?

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
The Rdoc works as a more technical reference. but intially it can be a bit intimidating (kinda like trying to learn a new language from a dictionary). as you get a feel for things the rdoc becomes more and more useful. the Rdoc is a HTML documentation that is built dynamically and runs from a

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
I would also look for opportunities where you could close and re-open the browser. IE can be a bit of a memory pig I've noticed, and if you are going to page after page after page with it, it will eventually grow to use a lot of memory. if it really was the text method in watir (or some

[wtr-general] Re: Flash with watir

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
For FlashWatir support, you'd probably be best off contacting the developer of flashwatir directly since I don't see that they have a forum or anything listed on the google code page for it. Your example below appears to be just a slightly edited version of their generic example code, Most

[wtr-general] Re: how to work with inner tags like td etc..

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
does the outer table had a good way to identify it? does the inner table exist inside a specific cell of the outer table? You might try using .flash to see if you can sort of work your way in from the outside. Potentially (this is theory, I've got no good site I can think of to hit and see if

[wtr-general] Re: How to Drag and Drop a DIV element in Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
if divs are draggable around the screen it's due to javascript running on the client, since that's not a normal behavior in an html page all on it's own. You should probably talk to your devs to find out how it's being done. I suspect you might end up having to do something like firing the

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
after a set amount of iterations sounds like it would work. I'll try it tomorrow and let you guys know. On Apr 6, 5:28 pm, Chuck van der Linden sqa...@gmail.com wrote: I would also look for opportunities where you could close and re-open the browser.  IE can be a bit of a memory pig I've

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Your original script would probably work if you'd had the correct value for the ID. You were using the id of the DIV that contained the select list, when you wanted the id value for the SELECT list itself were you ripping the values from the code itself using view source, or were you using the

[wtr-general] Re: watir 1.6.2 installation problem

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 4, 11:11 am, kiran gki...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you bret..its workinghow to use for for firefox http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Browser.new --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir

[wtr-general] Re: how to work with inner tags like td etc..

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
tag as #text Ex:- Table id=tableid TR id=tablerow TD id=tabledataWilmington /TD /TR /Table On Apr 6, 4:50 pm, Chuck van der Linden sqa...@gmail.com wrote: does the outer table had a good way to identify it?  does the inner table exist inside a specific cell of the outer table? You

[wtr-general] Re: Watir design patterns?

2009-04-05 Thread Chuck van der Linden
, Chuck van der Linden sqa...@gmail.comwrote: On Apr 3, 1:17 pm, Lisa Crispin lisa.cris...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on all that. Plus, as someone not very good w/ OO, I want to know stuff like when to use a class vs. a mixin, what kind of variables to use (global or whatever), tradeoffs

[wtr-general] Re: Can I define post method in goto?

2009-04-05 Thread Chuck van der Linden
figure out what user action would generate the post request, and use watir to drive the browser to do that. generally speaking only protocol level tools support making a post request directly, and you need to be very careful to get all the values right. On Apr 4, 2:47 am, swachian

[wtr-general] Re: Proplem with watir

2009-04-05 Thread Chuck van der Linden
#sigh message = Chuck::ApplyClueByFour.new() Vinay Please PLEASE help the people who you want to help you by using a subject for your postings that is descriptive of the problem you are having. Proplem with watir (sic) as a subject applies to 80%* of the messages posted here seeking help.

[wtr-general] Re: undefined method `button' for #Array:0x3451bd8 (NoMethodError)

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck van der Linden
there's only one way you could be getting that error. $ie no longer contains an instance of the browser class. Something in some other part of your code (look at what happens to it immmediately prior) has somehow changed it, or if it was passed or assigned or is some kind of copy it could now

[wtr-general] Re: Watir support third party controls?

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck van der Linden
only someone with the those controls installed or on a site would be able to answer that for sure since the controls are licensed, and most places with public sites don't like being used as targets for unannunced testing, my suggestion would be if you have or know of a site that uses those

[wtr-general] Re: Need to generate documentation in Watir using RDOC functionality

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck van der Linden
install the watir gem if you don't have it. then run gem server and hit I beieve it is localhost:8800 with your browser of choice. On Apr 2, 10:49 pm, aditi aditi_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I want to generate documentation in Watir using RDOC functionality.Can anyone tell me how I can do

[wtr-general] Re: Is there an easy way to see if specific text exists inside a div?

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck van der Linden
, 'legend').value.include?('username') -Tiffany On Apr 3, 11:27 am, Chuck van der Linden sqa...@gmail.com wrote: I want to make sure that the correct user has been logged in The user's name appears in a legend div a the top of the page, along with some other links for things like changing

[wtr-general] Re: Watir design patterns?

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 3, 1:17 pm, Lisa Crispin lisa.cris...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on all that. Plus, as someone not very good w/ OO, I want to know stuff like when to use a class vs. a mixin, what kind of variables to use (global or whatever), tradeoffs of flexibility and maintainability. I'm sure if we were

[wtr-general] Re: Performance Testing

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 2, 2:01 pm, Paul Rogers paul.rog...@shaw.ca wrote: most load tools do direct http posts/gets/put requests. jmeter does this using a java library, to get the high levels of virtual users. Browsermob uses amazon cloud running ms windows 2003 server and a real browser. Paul is absolutely

[wtr-general] Re: Load Error while running feature in cucumber (watir/cucumber)

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck van der Linden
I agree with brett, doesn't sound watir related. do you have either require 'spec' or include 'spec' at the top of your steps file, or some other file being reqired or included in the steps file? the error sounds like you've effectively told ruby i need 'spec' but ruby can't find it. so either

[wtr-general] Re: Need to check and uncheck multiple options in a multi select checkbox

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck van der Linden
If you were to try searching the group (see the little button up there called Search this group with the text entry box next to it?) using the phrase checkbox selection you would likely find several threads dealing with this. the short answer is clearall, then select the ones you want. for

[wtr-general] Re: Dynamic Objects

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Tony and Sai are pointing in the right direction here.. In cases like this you are faced with a challenge that will require you to learn the dark art of regular expressions.. Generally the format of the problem is like this checkbox (or other generic item) nearby text that a human uses to

[wtr-general] Re: Need to select a option in combo box

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck van der Linden
1) did you try searching the group for the phrase combo box ? 2) did you look at the item with the ie developer toolbar or firebug to see what class it is? 3) what have you tried, and what results did you get On Apr 2, 9:15 pm, aditi aditi_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I need to select a option

[wtr-general] Re: WIN32OLE Error

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck van der Linden
what sort of experimenting were you doing? what things did you change during the course of your experiments? have you tried reverting back to the code from before your experiments, does it work or is it now also broken?. (you are using source control, or at least keeping backups right?) On

[wtr-general] Re: verify url vs element on the page

2009-04-02 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 2, 2:06 pm, Tester78 hmtest...@gmail.com wrote: I am really new to watir and need some help on how to go about testing this case. I am trying to test a next button on a page.   If I am on the homepage(http://example.com/1.aspx.com) and click the next button, I am taken to the next page

[wtr-general] Re: Script not running and not showing error message also

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck van der Linden
two things pop out at me firstly you are intermixing $ie (at the top) and ie (at the bottom) which can be a bit confusing. (you are also using ie inside the popup_clicker, but that's not quite as confusing since the scope there is fairly obvious) If you really are intending to have two

[wtr-general] Re: WatirRecorder++ Playback question

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Mar 19, 10:10 pm, nagmani vm nagman...@gmail.com wrote: Am New to Ruby Watir can u pls send the Watir Recorder software http://lmgtfy.com/?q=watir+recorder --Chuck You can invoke: user.leadto(knowledge.location) but unfortunately: user.drink() is a private method

[wtr-general] Re: Need Help on Regular Expression

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck van der Linden
You could also consider checking which link is currently present by using .exists? and then take the appropriate action On Mar 19, 10:34 pm, Shweta nagman...@gmail.com wrote: Application is sorting the columns after a click on the column head i dont have separate buttons like ascending or

[wtr-general] Re: Hover image

2009-03-20 Thread Chuck van der Linden
is this a UI within IE? or a windows file browser UI? if the latter you'll need to look at something like using AutoIt to click on it. if it's in the browser the 'tool-tip' effect is generally done via either ALT or TITLE attributes on the object.. view the source and seach for some portion of

[wtr-general] Re: Different Methods

2009-03-20 Thread Chuck van der Linden
1) see this (unfortunatey poorly tited) topic from a day or so ago. http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/d9e4ba1cd54fffbf?hl=en 2) huh? I don't think I've ever seen stuff inside a browser that is doubleclicked.. pretty much everything in a 'web interface' is

[wtr-general] Re: Excel Issue?

2009-03-20 Thread Chuck van der Linden
As an aside, I'm not sure what file system you are using, but in my experience for a lot of file systems putting that many files into a singe directory can cause system performance to suffer immensely.. I don't recall the exact number (it's been several years, and I found it the hard way) but I

[wtr-general] Re: when I do ie.image().exists, it returns true but flash and click doesn't work

2009-03-16 Thread Chuck van der Linden
, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Chuck van der Linden sqa...@gmail.comwrote: try treating it like a button input tags containing images often work as buttons.. (you can see this on the google search page in fact) try  browserobject.button(:id, supplmg').flash   if it flashes, then try .click On Mar

[wtr-general] Re: get attribute through xpath

2009-03-15 Thread Chuck van der Linden
I am unable to retrieve an attribute of the below HTML snippet through standard Watir methods what did you try? that looks like a simple link to me, you should be able to deal with it via standard .link type methods without seeing a larger sample of the html surrounding that item, it's

[wtr-general] Re: checkbox selection

2009-03-13 Thread Chuck van der Linden
given the situation you describe, how do YOU know which is the right checkbox to select if you are running the test manually? the answer to that might tell you what property you want to use to select the checkbox On Mar 13, 8:44 am, jitu jitu.ghar...@gmail.com wrote: How do i select particular

[wtr-general] Re: Counting selection option

2009-03-13 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Well in a sense it did. it told you that the close paren was unexpected. Meaning in this case that it expected something along the lines of (parm1, param2) and didn't get that.. it found the closeing paren before it found the second parameter (which would have followed a comma, since the

[wtr-general] Re: Watir::Browser (NameError)

2009-03-13 Thread Chuck van der Linden
and add a line such as browser = Watir::Browser.new or you are likely to get an undefined method complaint when you to to use browser.element_by_xpath (unless there's something about Hpricot that is creating a browser object?) On Mar 13, 9:14 am, Bret Pettichord b...@pettichord.com wrote:

[wtr-general] Re: Error when trying to open Watir::IE browser

2009-03-13 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Seems like something must be missing.. I'm thinking your should consider saving your code off somewhere and doing a complete uninstall and reinstall of all watir stuff. I'm using IE.. I have the following in my script and it's working great require 'watir' require 'watir/testcase' #don't

[wtr-general] Re: How to print all the methods in the Class or Module out?

2009-03-12 Thread Chuck van der Linden
I'm still learning a lot regarding how ruby handles modules, classes etc.. but in general, woudln't using require instead of include solve his problem? (unless he's actually extending or subclassing stuff from the modules) I thought I remember seeing something about a lot of folks using

[wtr-general] Re: Need help

2009-03-11 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Per header on the main group page Please do not ask new questions in an unrelated thread. Please read the guidelines for the group http://wiki.openqa.org/ display/WTR/Guidelines+for+Posting+to+Watir+General+Google+Group if you have not already done so. Also please use a subject that tells

[wtr-general] Re: How to add any data into the EXCEL sheet using Excel interface class

2009-03-11 Thread Chuck van der Linden
We want to help you and others, really, but please we need you to do a few things to facilitate that. 0) READ THE POSTING GUIDELINES BEFORE POSTING 1) don't fork threads: don't ask new questions that are unrelated to the current subject 2) Search before you ask.. the answer might already be

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