> # creating a new IE instance immediately after quiting a previous one
> # causes intermittent RPC unavailable errors and other weirdness.
> # Make sure to wait 1 second after eating before swimming...
> until (Time.now - @@closed_last) > 1; sleep 0.1; end if @@closed_last
>
> immediate preceeds:
>
> @ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
>
> Any reason we shouldn't add this code to Watir?
yes. 2 reasons:
1) it will slow down your tests substantially. 1 second doesn't seem
like a long delay for a single test, but it quickly adds up.
2) this may still produce intermittent failures on slow machines or
servers under heavy load.
i still haven't looked at the code that we used to deal with this
problem. one approach that i remember that we tried was to monitor
the list of running processes to ensure that the closed ie process had
properly terminated -- the test thread would simply wait until the ie
process it had created was gone.
i think that we ended up coming up with something more elegant using
the COM api, but i can't remember what it is.
cheers,
owen.
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Owen Rogers | http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/exortech |
CruiseControl.NET - http://ccnet.thoughtworks.com
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