[wtr-general] OT: selenium-webdriver Ruby help?

2010-04-04 Thread Chris McMahon
I know a few of you are working in watir-webdriver. I am doing a small script using selenium-webdriver and I ran across something that looks like a bug in the framework, that might be interesting. If you would like to help me figure this out, let me know off the list, christopher dot mcmahon on

[wtr-general] had to issue 3 'gem install watir' commands

2009-10-16 Thread Chris McMahon
hi Watir people, long time no email. I want to use Watir for a little project. I was installing it on a Vista desktop. Because it took 3 tries to get everything, Bret suggested I mention that here. Here is the full transcript of the installation, which happened to still be up in my shell:

[wtr-general] Re: Data driven test using .CSV file

2009-07-26 Thread Chris McMahon
On Jul 25, 9:03 am, RAM rahulbhai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi allI am very new to Watiranybody here knows how to import value from  .CSV files and Export Results into an .CSV file in Watir. Please reply and provide links if similar subject is already posted. I wrote a toy

[wtr-general] Re: Watir vs Selenium

2009-05-01 Thread Chris McMahon
I've worked with Selenium the past two years. It's an excellent tool. For one thing, support for multiple browsers is excellent because the way Selenium goes about manipulating pages is consistent from browser to browser. Watir is rapidly achieving support for multiple browsers, but it is

[wtr-general] Re: thinking about automation frameworks/harnesses

2009-04-29 Thread Chris McMahon
On Apr 29, 12:47 am, JArkelen johnvanarke...@gmail.com wrote: It wasn't broad criticism, it was just my 2 cents about combining test data and object data. I don't know what you mean by object data. Probably a character flaw on my part, but that's why I was hoping for an example of what you

[wtr-general] Re: thinking about automation frameworks/harnesses

2009-04-28 Thread Chris McMahon
On Apr 28, 12:13 am, JArkelen johnvanarke...@gmail.com wrote: I can imagine why you want to separate the test data from the test script, but mixing it with the object data makes it confusing in my opinion. It would be better to separate both the test data and the object data to start with.

[wtr-general] Re: thinking about automation frameworks/harnesses

2009-04-28 Thread Chris McMahon
On Apr 28, 8:56 am, JArkelen johnvanarke...@gmail.com wrote: No, I have my own framework/directory structure for my tests and I'm perfectly happy with it. It seems hardly sporting to issue such a broad criticism and then leave without an example. :-) I wrote this to illustrate some

[wtr-general] Re: Apply a patch to FireWatir and JSSH

2009-04-27 Thread Chris McMahon
Does anyone know what that means/can post a step by step guide for it?  Or is there a better way to run multiple instances? Use Selenium-RC? :-) Seriously though, this would be a great feature to have. The problem is that Firefox depends on a profile. Selenium is smart enough to start

[wtr-general] Re: FireWatir bug/anomaly

2009-04-12 Thread Chris McMahon
Calling the methods method on the element reveals that the set   method you are calling is not present. I was surprised to see that   this method exists - I've always used the select method, which works   fine. The RDoc reveals that set should be an alias for select. I would suggest using

[wtr-general] Re: soa testing

2009-03-13 Thread Chris McMahon
On Mar 12, 8:31 am, Charley Baker charley.ba...@gmail.com wrote: No, Watir is a library to Automate browsers for web testing. That being said, Ruby has SOAP libraries(soap4r) that we're using quite extensively to test SOAP based services. The benefit of using a real language as opposed to