On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 5:11:29 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
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> I am investigating Watir and would like to know if I can use it to test 
> standalone apps.  (Example: I want to learn by 'testing' the Windows 
> calculator.)
> I searched 'GUI' and 'Standalone' with no hits... 
>

On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 7:23:32 AM UTC-8, John Fitisoff wrote:
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> Unfortunately, Watir's a browser testing tool. It doesn't work with 
> desktop apps, just browsers.
>
>
Yeah, the closest you could come is the tool that comes up when you google 
"calculator' or an online calculator such as this one 
http://web2.0calc.com/  Writing code to 'test' one of those would be a not 
bad way of getting started. 

You'd have to look at other tools to test 'native' applications, watir (as 
the name "Web Application Testing In Ruby" implies) is limited to doing 
browser automation for testing web applications. 

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