In case I had to use capybara/selenium, I'd definitely try test-page, but I don't see much point in using them compared to Watir :) Maybe only tight Rails integration of the first, but I think I would better improve watir-rails.
Reminds me http://watirmelon.com/2011/12/03/a-tale-of-three-ruby-automated-testing-apis-redux/ -- Cheerz, Alex Rodionov On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 03:05 , Jarmo Pertman wrote: > Hehe, you can work with the same well-known Watir API, when using test-page > too, because everything will be proxied to the underlying Watir element via > method_missing. And you can use well-known selenium-webdriver API in the same > way. Or some other well-known API. > > The main point of test-page compared to page-object, is that it does almost > not have any API itself, but it just creates the environment for you to start > using almost any library you feel comfortable in. > > Jarmo > > On Sunday, May 19, 2013 6:55:48 PM UTC+3, Alex Rodionov wrote: > > Yep, I understand. A lot similar does page-object by wrapping elements in > > own classes thus allowing to support both watir-webdriver and > > selenium-webdriver. The point of watirsome is a bit different - it exposes > > Watir classes so you could work with the same old well-known API. That's > > what I needed. > > > > -- > > Cheerz, > > Alex Rodionov > > > > > > On Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 21:29 , Jarmo Pertman wrote: > > > > > 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. 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