The only exhaustive testing there is is so much testing that the tester is exhausted. - William C. Hetzel
Wondering why I did not post anything here for a long time? I have been active at my other sites. Take a look if you want to know what is going on with me lately.
In the first episode Željko Filipin talks with Bret Pettichord about Watir and what it does and doesn’t do well. Bret describes how people are building frameworks with Watir and the reasons why Watir was created in the first place. Also included are his thoughts on recorders and open-source and his new company, WatirCraft.
More information at watirpodcast.com.
We were thinking about creating a page with all Watir contributors, and today I had a good enough reason to finally create it.
wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Contributors
Since I will not have the time to add all Watir contributors (answering questions at this list, writing documentation, code…), please add yourself to the page, and link to your contribution. If there are lots of them, just to the ones you are proud of. You can also add other people, just do not forget to link to the contribution.
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| Ruby on Beers 2 |
The second Ruby on Beers happened yesterday. About 15 of us appeared, much more than I expected.
We were talking about Heroku, Git and Watir.
We did not have the time to talk about Unicode and RSpec, so we will talk about it the next time. There was interest in talking about Rubinius.
The next Ruby on Beers will probably happen at the same place (Multimedijalni institut, net.kulturni klub mama, Preradovićeva 18, Zagreb), at Saturday May 31st 2008 at 5 pm.
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| Ruby on Beers 1 |
The first Ruby on Beers meeting happened last Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at lake Jarun, Zagreb, Croatia (map).
Ruby on Beers is informal gathering of Ruby users. It all started at ruby-hr Google group (in Croatian) that came to life after the first BarCamp Zagreb where we realized that there are more than one Ruby user in the near (as I thought before Barcamp).
The four of us appeared. Branimir Šloser, Saša Branković, Mislav Marohnić and me.
We enjoyed excellent Tomislav beer and discussed the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, and more specifically, what to do next.
The next meeting should be on Saturday, May 10th, 2008. I hope I will be able to talk about Watir, and there are rumors that there will be something said about Git and Unicode. Only the time will tell.
More details at Ruby on Beers official page.
If you are in the near, please drop by.
I saw this question at watir-general.
Short story is, there is no simple solution at the moment. I am just porting my tests from Watir to Firewatir and I have noticed two major differences:
I created a separate branch of my tests for Firewatir, until I see what should be changed in original tests to make them compatible with both Watir and Firewatir. If I can not make them work at both, I do not think that maintaining two branches will be much work.
If you are using id’s for identifying page elements, I think most of your test should work.
I am updating Watir Tutorial for a while now. It is still not done. At the moment, I am at the Pop Ups page. I have gathered data from Jonathan Kohl’s excellent user guide, Paul Rogers’ excellent pop ups article and Watir FAQ. I will continue to do that, but I need help.
At the moment I have found solutions for 4 types of pop ups: new browser windows, file uploads, JavaScript pop ups and security alerts. 4 types are not covered yet: modal dialogs, modeless dialog, basic authentication and file downloads.
Since pop ups are source of problems for lots of Watir users, I would really appreciate any help. If you have working code, ideas or just a little time to review what I have done, please do it. Tutorial is just a bunch of wiki pages that anybody can edit and comment. If you need help with wiki, please let me know.
I will present a short 20 minute introduction to Watir at BarCamp Zagreb on December 5 (15:20-15:40). If you are in the near, please stop by. Registration is free, but limited.
Thanks to Chris McMahon for the title.
I have been using TMail for testing e-mail functionality of web application that I test for a long time. But, development of that library stopped at 2004. Today I found out that it is again in development. Take a look at it’s web site and RubyForge project site.
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