Re: [Wtr-general] Handling multiple versions of a website [advice needed]

2006-10-25 Thread Bret Pettichord
John Lolis wrote: > Has anyone thought of a good way of managing such changes? Do you make one > giant 'mapping' class and just update that as needed? Do you store the Watir > calls and generate code around them? > I have a library of some 1250 lines of code. Although some of it was written

Re: [Wtr-general] Handling multiple versions of a website [advice needed]

2006-10-25 Thread Chris McMahon
On 10/25/06, John Lolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the input davemunns, its nice to hear from someone who is so far along in a project.My only real fear is that of maintaining such a giant library. If you were to leave your company tomorrow, would someone be able to pick it up in time be

Re: [Wtr-general] Handling multiple versions of a website [advice needed]

2006-10-25 Thread John Lolis
Thanks for the input davemunns, its nice to hear from someone who is so far along in a project. My only real fear is that of maintaining such a giant library. If you were to leave your company tomorrow, would someone be able to pick it up in time before it got too out of date? I typed a lot mo

Re: [Wtr-general] Handling multiple versions of a website [advice needed]

2006-10-24 Thread Dave Munns
I have written a product testing tool that automates the navigation (detecting GUI changes) through 320+ classes in a web-based gui. It also generates performance measurements. The tool is designed in 3 levels ( each in an rb file): 1) the high level test classes (named to easily map to the GUI

[Wtr-general] Handling multiple versions of a website [advice needed]

2006-10-24 Thread John Lolis
Looking for some feed back on this topic. To start, I'm attempting to automate a very large and very complex web application. Watir is great at handling all the strange controls (it has some timing issues with frames and modal dialogs, but those are known issues). The problem I now face is how