By the way, Watir-Classic works quite similarly today when compared to Watir-Webdriver - e.g. handling of popups is the same and you cannot interact with hidden elements. In other words - there should not have many of incompatibilities between the two.
Jarmo Pertman ----- IT does really matter - http://itreallymatters.net On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:49:39 PM UTC+2, Alex Shtayer wrote: > > 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.
