On 7/12/07, Pallavi Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
Marekj thanks for the quick and informative reply. We are planning to do
something very similar to what is stated in ur reply. Encapsulating watir
functions from the end user and providing him with a vocab [keywords] to
construct his test.
cool, be careful not to hide too much. Watir code is a sufficient
abstraction and you can train testers quickly on building tests with Watir
code directly rather than building a vocabulary, unless you have a very well
developed Domain Model and users are very well versed in expressing
themselves syntacticly with it.
did u built any object repository with Watir for the framework?
Nope. I was building each object as I needed to encapsulate. it was organic
growth.
When you start writing your own set of abstractions you start getting a big
overhead and it may not be worth it.
Remember: YAGNI, so just build the simplest thing that makes your job faster
and has immediate return on investments, all else is excess inventory to
manage.
Example: I needed a place to manage clicking on a page to go to the next
page, so I built a Page object that basically has a next behaviour
implmeneted as a collection of clicks on different buttons possible to go to
the next page, like buttons, image and possible names like Continue or
Save or Next or whatever.
class Page < TestObject
def next
#implmement clicking until you succeed with watir
end
end
The point was not to test here but to use watir to move from page to page
and I didn't want to waste time to find out how Continue, Next, Save button
was implmented on the page. I needed to abstract that and just say Page.next
Also can anyone tell me the difference between these two lines
for "http://ireland.hotels.com";
ie.document.frames.length works and returns value =2
ie.document.getElementsByTagName("frame") this doesn't returns any value.
Returns an object on irb session for me.:
irb(main):001:0> require 'watir' => true
irb(main):002:0> ie = Watir::IE.attach(:title, "Hotels.com") =>
#<Watir::IE:0x2d803f4 snip
irb(main):004:0> ie.document.frames.length => 2
irb(main):006:0> ie.document.getElementsByTagName("frameset") =>
#<WIN32OLE:0x2d65590>
irb(main):007:0> ie.document.getElementsByTagName("frame") =>
#<WIN32OLE:0x2d59240>
Also what all tags the method doc.all will not support, like in the code
watir.rb they have used .getElementsByTagName for divs, spans, tables
etc.. whats the difference there?
Please do let me know about it.
don't know what you mean here.
--marekj
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