Yes, this is what I keep telling here and stack overflow as well. That idea 
seems to be good,but in practical, it creates too much trouble. 

On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 1:45:21 PM UTC+5:30, Stefano wrote:
>
> Thank Titus for your answer.
>
> From the point of view of the developer of watir script ok, I agree with 
> you.
>
> However, from user's point of view (who actually configure a automatic 
> test case or has to correct the configuration becouse of changes in 
> business data) is a big problem. For example, if someone forgot to set an 
> input data of a test case, to have the feature to stop the ongoing test, 
> correct the configutation and restart with the same test case from a given 
> point is very useful.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Stefano
>
>
>
> Il giorno domenica 2 ottobre 2016 23:12:05 UTC+2, Titus Fortner ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Stephano,
>>
>> No, the w3c standard has no notion of being able to attach to an existing 
>> browser:  https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html
>>
>> Additionally, Internet Explorer support is eventually going to go away in 
>> favor of Edge (which Microsoft itself is writing the driver for).
>>
>> The best alternative I can suggest is to use debugging tools like pry, or 
>> RubyMine's excellent debugging options.
>>
>> Titus 
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 3:50:38 PM UTC-5, Stefano wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, yes I know that there is not such method in WATIR-Webdriver to 
>>> attach the browser as we do in WATIR-classic. Actually, it is not a matter 
>>> opening a new browser, but the big problem is how restore the session state 
>>> of the web application when the test has been interrupted (maybe for a 
>>> misconfiguration, an errore in the code of the watir script, etc)
>>>
>>> This situation is normal during debug or configuration of the scripts. 
>>> For our application, to repeat a test from de beginning is crazy - it can 
>>> take several minutes each time to reach the same state a script was 
>>> interrupted starting from the beginning.
>>>
>>> We need, in some way, to be able to continue a test from the same test 
>>> it was interrupted, even if in a new browser. How we can do it?
>>>
>>> Thanks al lot,
>>> Stefano
>>>
>>> 2016-10-02 11:03 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Hi stefano,
>>>>
>>>> There is no such method in WATIR-Webdriver to attach the browser as we 
>>>> do in WATIR-classic. If you want to do it, you need to open a new browser. 
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 2:17:39 PM UTC+5:30, Stefano wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> we are approaching the gradual conversion of all ours test cases from 
>>>>> watir-classic to watir-webdriver.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the moment, there are not big problems both for the update of Ruby 
>>>>> scripts and about stability of the scripts themselves
>>>>>
>>>>> However we have a big concern, that we have not solved yet, also 
>>>>> searching on the net.
>>>>>
>>>>> The old method "attach", available with watir-classic, was very useful 
>>>>> during debug or configuration of the scripts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you know if there exist an similar way to do the same of "attach" 
>>>>> with watir-webdriver? Will it foreseen a similar method "attach" with 
>>>>> watir-webdriver?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks all,
>>>>> Stefano   
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>

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