Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-22 Thread Walter Kruse
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret Pettichord Sent: 22 February 2007 06:46 AM To: wtr-general@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough John Lolis wrote: I don't feel that its a problem Watir needs

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-22 Thread Bret Pettichord
Walter Kruse wrote: I just wish the Win32-GUITest library could get the same amount of attention. I've had lots of success with Perl's version of this lib., and would like to do that testing in Ruby now. Maybe you could give it some attention. Seriously, there is no one to do this stuff

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-22 Thread Chris McMahon
On 2/22/07, Walter Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bret, I had a look long ago at Piotr Kaluski's very detailed docs for Perl's Win32GuiTest (http://www.piotrkaluski.com/files/winguitest/docs/winguitest.html). He even lists some C code examples. I'm afraid C is a little beyond me... Wayne

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-21 Thread Cylindric
Indeed. Watir's strength for us was that we couldn't afford a huge application and all the time and training that entails, and Watir allowed us to put together a pretty comprehensive set of tests for our few websites. Creating a general-purpose framework would probably make it as complex as

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-21 Thread Bret Pettichord
John Lolis wrote: I don't feel that its a problem Watir needs to solve. If the community really did want some framework I think it would be a project separate from Watir. I'm not even sure a project like that would work. Every application that needs testing is probably going to need a

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-20 Thread John Lolis
I think the problem for the OP is that we don't have good examples/documentation describing this approach. I don't feel that its a problem Watir needs to solve. If the community really did want some framework I think it would be a project separate from Watir. I'm not even sure a project

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-19 Thread Cylindric
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by being unable to reference scripts, but I split my tests into: 1 script with helper functions such as GoToURLAndExpectText for example 1 script with the header type declarations in it, URL's, usernames etc X several scripts with various parts of the app

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-19 Thread Bret Pettichord
Cylindric wrote: I'm not entirely sure what you mean by being unable to reference scripts, but I split my tests into: 1 script with helper functions such as GoToURLAndExpectText for example 1 script with the header type declarations in it, URL's, usernames etc X several scripts with various

[Wtr-general] Watir.. close, but not close enough

2007-02-12 Thread Bret Pettichord
Critical commentary follows: [i]I have taken a leap into watir and I must say that at first glance it was fun, easy and usable. However, when I needed a more complicated and managed solution it fell flat. Watir provides an easy and simple way to access DOM elements and complete user (through