The only exhaustive testing there is is so much testing that the tester is exhausted. - William C. Hetzel
The first draft.
Guidelines for Posting to Watir General Google Group
Please take a look. It is a wiki page, so if you want something do add or edit (or delete), go ahead. The page is still not linked from anywhere, so if the community thinks it is not a good idea, we can always delete it.
I usually search application logs using Windows Explorer and it works fine. But this time, I tried to search for string @domain and Search Companion pop up appeared with error message “The Indexing Service query cannot be completed successfully because the volumes you have specified are not indexed.” I knew that there was nothing wrong with indexing because all other searches were working fine.
Google search found a page Unsolved Annoyances that said you will get that error message if you search for strings that start with either of following characthers: !#@
I wrote this post months ago, but I did not publish it because I felt it was not finished. The time has come. I have read Jason Darling’s post at Watir General titled Identifying problems and proposing solutions for the Watir community (I can not find that post at Watir General site at the moment). Great post. I would like to add a thought or two.
When posting to Watir General, please give enough of information so I could understand your problem. A snippet of HTML that you have problem with and a line or two of your Ruby code that tries to do something with that HTML will do. Just to make myself clear:
Noticed relevant? I really do not have time to browse through entire HTML pages and Ruby scripts. Really.
I intended to make a page at Watir wiki with such information, but never got the time. Well, now that the content is here, creating wiki page is just a minute of work.
I am just not sure that Jason’s post, this post, or wiki page will make a difference. Well, I can try. I will even post this at Watir General.
By the way, the title for this post if from This Is Your Brain On RST article by Michael J. Hunter also known as The Braidy Tester.
I recently reinstalled Windows XP Professional at my machine. After that, Network Connections pop up started appearing. Yesterday I finally found a way to get rid of it.
Internet Explorer 7 > Tools > Internet Options > Connections > Choose Settings if you need to configure a proxy server for a connection. > Never dial a connection > OK.
This is another gem from Watir General Google group.
How to scroll Internet Explorer with Watir?
I wanted to copy a file from Ruby. Documentation for File#copy
said that
should work. But, I got this error message:
NoMethodError: undefined method `copy' for File:Class
Google search led me to ruby-talk post that said I should do:
I am just surprised that documentation did not make that clear.
I am using VMware Server 1.0.3 for my virtual machines. I really need shared folders feature, but I found at their site (can not find the link at the moment) that it is not included in VMware Server. I found out a simple solution to that problem. I am using file sharing feature that is included in Windows operating system.
All files that are located at Shared Documents (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents) at host machine are visible from virtual machine, and vice versa. Also, I use this feature to share files in my local network between different real machines.
All you have to do is run Network Setup Wizard (start > Control Panel > Network and Internet Connections > Network Setup Wizard).
Here are screen shots from my installation.
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I came back from a long vacation, and what a surprise. Watir 1.5.2 is out!
According to RubyForge, it was over two years since the last major update (1.4.1). There were a lot of minor updates in the meantime, and you could always get the latest source.
Take a look at the official release post at Watir wiki.
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