Hi! I have been thinking about making Watir wait automatically before throwing Exceptions. I don't know how you are dealing currently with the pages with Ajax/JavaScript usage, but i find myself quite often using some wait_until or similar solution. It has happened quite often that i create a test and it's ok, but then at some CI machine it fails intermittently and i end up inserting some wait_until in between assertions or anything else.
The problem is that sometimes JavaScript is used to redirect/refresh or change the DOM. All these things are not blocking #wait if i'm not mistaken. If JavaScript redirect/refresh is used then there is a possibility that there will be some random errors because Watir loads the page and thinks everything is ready and doesn't block in #wait anymore, but right then the redirect is issued and something might break or might not break - depending of the timing. So, i was thinking - why not add some 5-10 seconds wait_until into somewhere to not throw Exception right away if the object doesn't exist? Or if the object isn't visible? So, if the test is failing then it waits maximum of 5-10 seconds befor actually failing and if test is ok, then it doesn't add any extra waiting time. And there's no need to put all those wait_until's into every here and there. If there's some longer Ajax call or anything then you can still use a wait_until in your test with longer timeout. So it shouldn't break any backwards compatibility either. What do you guys think? Is there any reason why not to implement something like that? Jarmo _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
