Is it important to maintain some kind of rule or to ease the user who automate the page? Which one is important? I am not the only one who reports this problem, there are many others who automated in watir-classic in the past has reported the same. If you still want to insist this restriction, then why do you give to the user? Why can't you establish the same feature within watir-webdriver? that means, when I try to click the element, let watir-webdriver itself bring that element into the visibility, So it resemble to the user level interaction,right?
On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 9:48:03 PM UTC+5:30, Titus Fortner wrote: > > Watir is there to represent what a user can do on a page. If your elements > are not visible, your user can't interact with them, so your test should > not be able to interact with them. That's a feature. :) > > > > On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7:33:57 AM UTC-5, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> Yes, that's why watir-webdriver is highly annoying, In watir-classic you >> don't find any such limitation, you can attach browser and you can click >> the element without doing the visibility checking, but in watir-webdriver >> we have to do separate coding to bring the element into visibility. I know >> this is not from watir-webdriver, it's from webdriver, but also whichever >> automation tool lies on this webdriver has to face this limitation, but the >> question is, Since it's a limitation, why not watir-webdriver does this job >> on behalf of user? Why not it brings the element into visibility when I >> tend to press the button? For an example, if you enter a text in the >> text_field, it automatically brings the text_field into visiblity because >> of the focus function, Said that, why not the same function can be given to >> all the elements which user tend to interact? >> >> On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 2:42:05 AM UTC+5:30, Titus Fortner wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> -- -- 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/d/optout.
