On Jul 10, 9:06 am, karim rayani <karim....@gmail.com> wrote: > if one has knowledge of automation then learning watir should only > take around 1 month. > However if automation/programming background then it can take a fair bit of > time
I could not agree more. A lot also has to do with aptitude. Automation is a type of programming, some people have a nack for that, others do not. If you are someone to whom programming makes 'sense' then you will probably pick things up quickly no matter the language or tool. A great book to help you learn some of the basic of programming in RUBY is "Everyday Scripting with Ruby" by Brian Marick Test automation is in many ways an art, there's a lot of tricks of the trade as it were. some of them you can find here and there in books etc, but much of it is stuff you learn by doing. little things like always starting off a large batch of tests with both a test you expect to pass, but also one that will intentionally FAIL, and making sure that you in fact detect that it DID fail.. (so you know your stuff can actually properly detect and report when something fails, because well if that's broken then it can look like everthing is working, when in fact main tests are failing and it's just not being properly reported) Web based testing also requires that you have at least a basic understanding of both the HTTP protocol (at least understanding how things pass back and forth between the browser and the server), and the HTML language used for web-pages, and how it can call javascript to enable dynamic functionality at the client side (which doesn't hit the webserver in many cases). Because watir interacts with the browser, you need to have at least a basic understanding of what makes up a web page, and what the types of elements on the page are etc. But really it all depends on you, and your background, aptitude, and experience. Some people are going to be able to pick this stuff up really quickly, for others it may take a lot longer, and for still others it's time to find a different line or work. I recently trained a co-worker who understands the basics of web pages, and has tested for years, but had zero experience with programming, or automation. and in a week he was starting to write watir automation on his own. not terribly fast, and with a bunch of questions, but he was producing tests.. (we utilize a combination of Watir, the Watircraft framework, and Cucumber for our stuff) a few months down the road and he's still learning about stuff as needed, but is largely able to work on his own, and a majority of the questions are not 'how do I write the watir code for this" but more related to how the actual tested app is supposed to behave, or details of the user actions we are emulating. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
