General impression: I created hundreds of cases for different functionality (in some cases really complex one) on watir classic and firewatir. After that I spent last six months to migrate everything on one platform (watir-webdriver) as it helps me keep code for all browsers much more maintainable and in the same way. (we don't need all this firefox plug-ins and etc). Also I love new way of handling pop-ups in watir-webdriver, so I finally get rid all AutoIT code and have pure watir code. As for me, watir-webdriver works MUCH more reliable than watir for small cases (I do not see any random things), but for long runs I see some crashes that I cannot debug in any way due the driver itself (.exe, so black box for me). So if you do not see any issues with driver, I will recommend to use watir-webdriver
Is it true that watir-webdriver has improved significantly in the past 12 months? I know only for last 6 months, but yes. As for me - as Željko said 'Not sure if I would say "significantly", but I would say it has improved' The true motivation for watir-classic: If you have all your code on watir and you don't want to migrate it. As watir-webdrvier completely differently interacts with elements in comparison with watir, you will need to work a lot for such migration. Even the syntax is similar, it doesn't mean that your code will work. For example, my watir code can click on elements that are not visible (like directly through DOM), but watir-webdriver will definitely crash and etc. -- -- 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] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
