I guess I mean regular js pop up boxes. A modal dialog window that pops up and you have to click "ok" to keep going. They look the same in firefox as in IE. Lisa
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Paul Rogers <paul.rog...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Lisa Crispin Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009) http://lisacrispin.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
