Hi Nathan,

Get the latest code from the following location.
http://firewatir.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Installation/

It contains installation doc, XPI and Firewatir gem.
Let me know the problems you have faced. Its still in development and this
will help me in generating the help document or installation document more
accurately.

Regards,
Angrez


On 12/2/06, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

So I haven't rejected Firewatir, rather I have not been able to find any
new info on it, and as far as the site here goes, it appears to have been
abandoned.  I'd like very much to use it and develop it more if
necessary.  We would like a good way to test in Firefox and Safari that
isn't proprietary, and free if possible.  One difficulty in our experience,
though it is a good thing, is that only Microsoft products are bound to
putting OLE/COM servers in their products, so as Firefox and Safari don't
have these things, I'll need to rely on a plugin.  I am not opposed to
plugins to do the job.  Quick Test Pro after all uses a plugin to automate
both Firefox and IE, but it has no support for Safari, and it's pretty
costly for what we get.  Also it doesn't do everything we want it to
do.  The one thing I want to completely avoid though is recompiling a
browser just so we can test on it - a plugin is something everyone can get
and use, but recompiling the browser voids our tests i
n our mind.  If it works here or doesn't work here when we've recompiled
the browser, then we cannot guarantee even similar results to people who use
a precompiled browser.  We're a professional business and we need to
guarantee our product and have reproducible results.  I disagree that
automating something "always has the potential to perturb the results" as
you put it.  If that were indeed the case then automation would not be as
common as it is, and more people would be more reluctant to pursue it.

Thanks for the insight,

Nathan
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