Hi guys, In view of my last email about this I've decided to push on with druby instead of http as I think the concepts surrounding distributed computing are a good fit. This work has progressed since my last, you can view the source here: http://github.com/90kts/watirgrid
I haven't been able to contact any of the original authors of dwatir or watirgrid so ploughing ahead under my own direction. I've only been testing on a local machine with a windows VM, so the next steps are to test this approach in anger. If you'd like to have a look at the source, or play with the gem feel free (gemcutter is the primary source) gem install gemcutter gem tumble gem install watirgrid I've also included some instructions and detailed examples in the source as RDoc. I'm heading for a railscamp this weekend so planning on tinkering with watirgrid some more. As you can probably tell from my source, I'm a tester-wannabe-developer so any general advice you have on refactoring/structure/approach etc would be appreciated. I'll try and round up some advice from railscamp. Regards, Tim Koopmans On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tim Koopmans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've recently been tinkering with distributed testing across a grid > network with Watir. This work is currently hosted on GitHub at > http://github.com/90kts/watirgrid > > I based my initial design off DWatir[1] which uses Rinda to implement > a tuple space: a repository of tuples that can be accessed > concurrently. I've tried unsuccessfully to contact the original author > Dane Avilla, which looks like development stopped in 2007. > > Since starting the GitHub project I've noticed a similar solution, not > using Rinda (UDP broadcast over druby protocol) but WebBrick (http > protocol) instead. It's also called WatirGrid[2] (oops!) and the > author looks to be Peter Houghton. > > My end state is to facilitate some form of load testing with watir, > using many browsers concurrently. I plan to release it as a separate > gem. My preference so far is to continue with the druby protocol. > > Questions to you are do you have any preference on choice of protocol > (druby vs. http) and does anyone know the original authors so that I > might get in contact with them? > > [1] http://dwatir.rubyforge.org/ > [2] http://www.ohloh.net/p/watirgrid > > Regards, > Tim Koopmans > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
