Would that work if URL changes a few times a day? We cut what we call a release from development and the URL contains link to our product site in the dev enviroment with the change code. So basically its a new URL for every change we do.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:02:19 PM UTC-7, Dave McNulla wrote: > Of course. You can store information in a yaml file, ini file, or > properties file. Where I work, we use buildr with properties files that > allow us to switch the system under test as easily as using a different > environment variable: > buildr -e test cuke > where test represents a test.properties file, and cuke runs our cucumber > feature files. > > Hope that helps, > > Dave > > On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:28:25 PM UTC-7, Ry wrote: >> >> I will try my best to explain my question. >> >> Is it possible... >> >> I have several sites, they are essentially the same, (same menus, reports >> ect..) the GUI is identical, but data may vary. Test sites, essentially, >> but each site has a different URL in testing or staging environment. >> >> Because that is the case, currently, we have to edit our script and >> change the url each time we want to run a script to a specific site. >> >> THE QUESTION! =) >> >> could the script have a variable of some sort that looks to a field in a >> web page (that we're building in house) to see what site is pasted in the >> field and then run the script using whatever site is listed in the field? >> or something similar to that, but basically a universal variable for the >> URL that someone can run across several sites with same GUI, but without >> having to edit the script. >> >> Thank you for any ideas on this. >> > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
