What kind of terminal eimulator you are using, most of these Emulators support api/ehhlapi to interface with VB or other language for scription. Once you know that you can implement same functions in Ruby which will make your too free of cost...
I had done same for our mainframe like emulator which is non standard 5250 or 3270 emulators. One of terminal emulator i know which has scripting is intelleterm http://www.distinct.com/intelliterm/intelliterm.htm which u can intregate with word excel for reporting purpose On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Bill Agee <billa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2. We also test a variety of browser based software this is currently > > done via QTP therefore strategically any move I would contemplate would > > demand that so far as is possible all testing should be on a single > > platform with a single scripting language. > > I think the "single scripting language" requirement you have may > exclude this suggestion, but you might want to check out Expect - it's > free and is available for Windows: > > http://expect.nist.gov/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect > > But since Expect scripts must be written in Tcl, and Expect cannot > test Windows GUI apps, it may not work in your situation. > > A couple of Expect workalikes written for Ruby, Perl, and Python (and > maybe more?) exist, but the Ruby version (Rexpect) does not function > on Windows last I checked. Not sure about the Perl and Python > libraries. > > > Thanks > Bill > > > > -- Santosh Solpaurkar Software Engineer CGI Mumbai --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
