By the way, element class method in test-page is not the same as your tag-based methods. Element in test-page is a method for providing container element - e.g. like "el" in Backbone.js. The method name is "element" because it is framework agnostic - e.g. you can use it with Watir-WebDriver, Selenium-Webdriver, Capybara or with whatever other framework - i'd say that's the real main difference between test-page and Watirsome.
Jarmo On Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:22:18 PM UTC+3, Alex Rodionov wrote: > > For the record, I have updated Watir readme to include all these libraries. > > On Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:19:47 PM UTC+7, Alex Rodionov wrote: >> >> @Jarmo @Chuck >> >> I created this because I've been using >> page-object<https://github.com/cheezy/page-object>for more than a year and I >> didn't know abut test-factory and test-page. It >> has a bit different API compared to them: test-factory and test-page >> provide with #element class method, while page-object provides with a range >> of tag-based methods (#div, #text_field, etc.) I find it much nicer as it >> is more readable. >> >> I've been contributing to page-object constantly but at some point faced >> architecture limitations which resulted that it may be easier to create my >> own library which implements similar API other than modify page-object. So >> I did just the same. >> >> The main idea is to be as close to Watir API as possible (the same >> locators, method names) + some extra stuff. It's achieved because watirsome >> is practically a "proxy" to Watir browser. This allowed me to move all >> element definitions to class methods so it's much easier to support such >> page classes. >> >> Extra stuff includes initializers for page classes and region modules (to >> support polymorphous page >> objects<http://p0deje.blogspot.ru/2012/01/polymorphous-page-objects.html>), >> custom >> locators which for now is any boolean method Watir::Element responds to. >> For example: >> >> # find first visible text field with label "Username" >> text_field :username, label: 'Username', visible: true >> >> I treat it as an alternative to gems you mentioned which is more suitable >> for me. >> >> >> On Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:46:25 PM UTC+7, Jarmo Pertman wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> If you're looking something really lightweight, then my gem Test::Page >>> is the one you're looking for: >>> https://github.com/jarmo/test-page >>> >>> Jarmo >>> >>> On Friday, May 17, 2013 11:46:18 PM UTC+3, Chuck van der Linden wrote: >>>> >>>> On Monday, May 13, 2013 11:36:12 PM UTC-7, Alex Rodionov wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey guys! >>>>> >>>>> I've recently released Watirsome, which is a gem I've been using at >>>>> work for a long time as an alternative to well known page-object. >>>>> >>>>> It's a lot similar to it, but more dynamic and based on >>>>> watir-webdriver. Thus (at least for now), it works only with it. >>>>> >>>>> Anyways, you can take a look at https://github.com/p0deje/watirsome and >>>>> probably give it a shot! >>>>> >>>> >>>> How is it different from, or would you contrast it with the >>>> "test-factory" page objects gem? http://rubygems.org/gems/test-factory >>>> >>>> just wondering as that is a lightweight, designed for Watir page >>>> objects gem that I'm using (and so far like very much) >>>> >>> -- -- 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.
