> Well...
> > (1) There should be documentation that specifically
> states how to drive a Javascript -- as in, use
> .link(:url, "path")
> > (2) It should point out that it is driven by
> "click", not fire_event('onclick').
> > (3) Actually, there should be documentation that
> identifies all of the available API's, and provide
> examples for each. Right now the Watir User Guide is
> too simple. It doesn't handle real world situations.
> >
> I believe most of this is documented in the API
> Documentation.
> http://wtr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html
OK, not to be negative, but surely you're joking.
Have you looked at that page? It is completely bassackwards when you are trying
to find something. It is organized top down, hierarchically, and has no search
feature.
So...if I want to go to the rightmost list and look at each and every
method...some are well documented others not so documented.
But let's take this example:
ie.frame("top_frame").link(:url,"javascript:Events.invokeEvent(\'2_11_act\')").click
Now, the rdoc for frame says:
===
Typical usage:
ie.frame(:index, 1)
ie.frame(:name , 'main_frame')
ie.frame('main_frame')
===
Good enough. But does it say I can do ie.frame("top_frame").link? No. Is "link
listed as a Method? Why yes it is...if I knew that method was what was required
here, that would be useful -- but since in the code, the Javascript is not
associated with an HREF, it is not obvious that I need a link -- or even that
there is a method called link. So I have to scroll through all methods hunting
and checking. And even then -- I have to take a big guess because the typical
usage says:
===
Typical Usage
ie.link(:url, /login/) # access the first link whose url matches
login. We can use a string in place of the regular expression
# but the complete path must be used,
ie.link(:url, 'http://myserver.com/my_path/login.asp')
ie.link(:index,2) # access the second link on the page
ie.link(:title , "Picture") # access a link using the tool tip
ie.link(:text, 'Click Me') # access the link that has Click Me as
its text
ie.link(:afterText, 'Click->') # access the link that immediately
follows the text Click->
===
See? Nothing about Javascript in there. Which there should be -- since this is
a pretty common Javascript situation I think. So even if there WAS a search
feature -- it wouldn't have hit on this. So as I result I basically wade
through the forum, trying this and that.
Look, I am not complaining about the work that has been done -- a number of
people have done an excellent job with Watir. What I am saying is that if
Testers are to use Watir, some much better documentation needs to be developed.
As it happens, I am working up documentation as I go through this and learn
Watir, and eventually that may be of use, but...it doesn't help me now! ;-)
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