I've worked with Selenium the past two years. It's an excellent tool.
For one thing, support for multiple browsers is excellent because the way Selenium goes about manipulating pages is consistent from browser to browser. Watir is rapidly achieving support for multiple browsers, but it is using different mechanisms to manipulate each browser. I recently found an instance where Watir was far better than Selenium. I had a need to analyze a web site that contained a lot of poorly-formed HTML. Selenium would not recognize the pages at all, but Watir worked quite well. At one time Watir was somewhat easier to learn, although I think Selenium (especially with Selenium-RC) has been catching up. Traditionally Selenium appealed more to developers new to testing and Watir more to testers new to development, but I think that distinction is disappearing. So I'd say: try them both, build a few dozen assertions about the behavior of your particular site with each, and see which is more comfortable. On May 1, 1:51 am, venky <venkatesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I had worked with watir. I would like to explore selenium too as both > are open source. I am very curious to know the advantages and > disadvantages of watir and selenium when both are compared. If the > answer is "It depends on requirement" kindly let me know for which > requirement which is the best tool to choose. > I had googled "watir vs selenium". But I would be satisfied if most of > the experienced QA engineers here share their experience, as it would > be very helpfull to all. > > Comparison with Watir and other open source are welcome... > > Thanks, > Venkathttp://www.prog2impress.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
