[wtr-general] Preference for where to put example improvements?

2009-03-10 Thread Chuck vdL
I've been playing with the CLReport example html reporting class, I've added the concept of a 'blocked' test (e.g. if you were going to check the URL of a link, but the link doesn't exist) and also have what I think might be slightly more useful examples of how to use it (by creating a

[wtr-general] Re: Does Watir support

2009-01-04 Thread Chuck vdL
are not normally the things that cause load issues.. so it's good for really basic tests, but again not terribly useful for most serious loadtests. On Jan 4, 3:35 am, Alex Collins a.j.collins...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 Jan 2009, at 07:13, Chuck vdL wrote: 5.Can be used for Load Testing

[wtr-general] Re: Does Watir support

2009-01-03 Thread Chuck vdL
5.Can be used for Load Testing? ok I'm gonna get up on a soapbox for a moment. THIS is a bogus requirement. If you want to say simple or rudimentary loadtesting then I can accept it, but ANY tool maker that claims their tool is good for both functional testing at the UI level, and can ALSO

[wtr-general] Re: set watir_browser=ie is not working

2008-12-11 Thread Chuck vdL
The set option is a nice way to be able to run the very same script against both browsers without having to edit the script itself. e.g. run in one system set for IE, and it uses IE, run it on another system set for firefox, and it uses firefox.. but speaking of that, if both are used, which

[wtr-general] Re: Need to pick amount from the script

2008-12-09 Thread Chuck vdL
gah just noticed typo in the below.. the method is of course .text not .txt as I've typed it On Dec 9, 1:20 pm, Chuck vdL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's possible the regular expression isn't matching .. The first thing I'd do to debug is remove the split  and just puts ksh to see what

[wtr-general] Re: Clicking tabs has no effect

2008-12-05 Thread Chuck vdL
try mouseup instead of mousedown.. some webdevs seem to like to use two events, one to take care of the visual effect when you 'press' the button down, and another than actually makes things happen when the mouse button is released. (a side effect of this btw is that if a user 'slides' off the

[wtr-general] Re: How to click the ► on the page?

2008-12-02 Thread Chuck vdL
There was another thread here in the last week on just this same sort of thing. try reading this thread, which I think had sample code and all http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/ thread/fc0e667e13574a61?hl=en# You'll need to fire the onclick event for that object, you

[wtr-general] Updating RubyForge info for Watir?

2008-12-02 Thread Chuck vdL
Is this on the todo list? I was just there and noticed that the info still indicates it's windows only, ie only, there's no release notice for 1.6.2 under 'latest news, and is the development status still actually considered to be 'beta' ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[wtr-general] Watir Ruby in Steel

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
I'm having a look at Ruby in Steel as a potential IDE for doing testing automation with Watir. http://www.sapphiresteel.com/ Mostly because: 1) all my devs use Visual Studio for their work, so it puts me on the same platform, gives me good integration with our source control etc. 2)

[wtr-general] Re: How to click dijit button char

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
for their help! On Nov 25, 4:37 pm, Chuck vdL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK so we can't see what the functions called by them do, but it does look like there are 4 events getting defined.. have you tried using code to fire one of the events (onmousedown seems the most obvious candidate) to see

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Ruby in Steel

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
the parser Paul On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Chuck vdL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a look at Ruby in Steel as a potential IDE for doing testing automation with Watir.  http://www.sapphiresteel.com/ Mostly because:  1) all my devs use Visual Studio for their work, so

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Ruby in Steel

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
my_method( 4,5,6)  # produces you didnt supply 2 args Paul On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Chuck vdL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK so I went and looked..  it's not javascript -=-=- snip-=-= class Radio RadioCheckCommon  def initialize *args =-=-=-= snip =-=-=-= its the *  in *args

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Ruby in Steel

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
do as you describe - add brackets round it all. To submit a patch, open a jira ticket and do a diff of what you have compared to the current svn Im sure how to do that is described on the wiki or in this list Paul On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Chuck vdL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Ruby in Steel

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
On Dec 1, 12:14 pm, Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do note that all of the examples you've found so far represent correct Ruby code. In many cases with Ruby, parentheses are optional. It might be best if you reported your findings to the Ruby in Steel people so that they can

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Ruby in Steel

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
and Watir both. I'm rather hoping that it's something simple I've not done right and not a bug, but we will have to see how the Sapphire people respond. On Dec 1, 12:58 pm, Chuck vdL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 12:14 pm, Bret Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do note that all

[wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value blah... within a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
Is 'Blah the actual value defined in the HTML for that listbox item, or is perhaps the browser UI visually truncating something longer down to what will fit in available space for the way the listbox is defined? On Dec 1, 1:11 pm, Moochie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason when I

[wtr-general] Re: Getting error at installing 1.6.1

2008-11-25 Thread Chuck vdL
FYI: got this same builder doc error when I tried to install just now.. Do we need to update the install instructions in the tutorial and such to reflect that users might expect to see this error, and what (if anything) they need to do about it? Perhaps also update the 'Output should be

[wtr-general] Re: How to click dijit button char

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck vdL
is there anything in the html that is defining something like an 'onclick' for that thing? all I see in the code above is basically just text..and normal text isn't clickable as far as I know. maybe there's some other object that's actually overlapping that button On Nov 21, 11:30 am,

[wtr-general] Re: Should Tutorial and Quickstart be updated to use Watir::Browser?

2008-11-17 Thread Chuck vdL
: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 17:23, Chuck vdL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't they be changed to reflect the new integration with Firewatir +1 You sound like you know what you are talking about (a lot of you's in this short sentence). Would you do it? Željko --http://watirpodcast.com/alister

[wtr-general] Re: Should a logger be included in Watir?

2008-11-14 Thread Chuck vdL
I think JArkelen points out something fairly valuable here. we're overloading the term 'logger' and that's causing confusion.. perhaps using more distinct nomenclature would be good? In my view there is both Logging used for debugging of scripts or how exactly the application is failing when

[wtr-general] Re: Tutorial Examples now 'missing'

2008-11-10 Thread Chuck vdL
Pettichord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is unclear to me what examples you mean. Examples that had been included in the 1.5 source tree were moved to the wiki.http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Examples Bret Chuck vdL wrote: I think I found them back on the 1.5 branch, but the trunk based links

[wtr-general] Tutorial Examples now 'missing'

2008-11-09 Thread Chuck vdL
I think I found them back on the 1.5 branch, but the trunk based links to the Examples folder given in the tutorial are no longer working. I installed watir just before you bumped to 1.6 but have been busy with other things at work and was just now starting on the tutorial. Is someone slated