what do you use in Firefox for the modaldialogs? or do you mean regular js pop up boxes?
Paul On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I hope this isn't too annoying of a question. I'm just trying to decide > our next steps wrt Watir and our test automation. I just thought I'd double > check on what I think I know already. > > I spent the last several weeks getting our Watir suites working with v. > 1.6.2 and Vista. I finally beat them into submission, and I'm exhausted. > (This is not a reflection on Watir, but probably on the design of our > scripts, and definitely on my lack of expertise). > > My ultimate goal was to get these scripts working with Firefox also, and I > had some hope when I first read about 1.6.2 that this would be possible. > However, I recall that Bret replied to one of my emails relating to dealing > with modal dialogs this way: > > I'm saying that I do not have a plan on how to support modal dialog > testing that will work with both IE and Firefox, and as far as I know, > no one else is working on this. > > I'm wondering if this means we should abandon all hope of ever being able to > run our scripts against Firefox (which would make them a lot easier to > integrate with our build process, as well as easier for the developers who > all use Macs to run them to help with their own testing)? > > The developers could run the scripts on their Parallels or VMWare, but the > scripts run very slowly there for some reason. Should we be thinking about > migrating to a different browser driver if we want to have scripts that > everyone can use to help with testing? We have good tools for our automated > regression tests, and I guess we could adapt those tests to do the same > purpose of Watir, it just happened that it was the Watir scripts that got > all the good flexibility that make them handy for setting up test scenarios. > > Do other people have automated scripts to help with exploratory testing and > manual testing, and if so, what tools do you use for that? Or are other > people just luckier and don't have modal dialogs to deal with? > > Thanks, > Lisa > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
