08.29.08

My other sites

Posted in Blogging, Podcasts, Software, Watir at 10:28 am by Željko Filipin

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.

twitter.com/zeljkofilipin: my micro blog (140 characters maximum per post)
Watir Podcast: I talk with Watir users about Watir (audio)
twitter.com/watirpodcast micro blog about Watir Podcast
friendfeed.com/zeljkofilipin: site that merges all my feeds, wondering if it will be useful at all

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05.28.08

Watir Podcast

Posted in Podcasts, Watir at 10:03 am by Željko Filipin

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.

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05.13.08

Watir Contributors

Posted in Watir at 4:22 pm by Željko Filipin

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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04.24.08

Watir 1.5.4 is released

Posted in Watir at 9:39 am by Željko Filipin

Watir 1.5.4 is released.

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02.19.08

Would My Watir Tests Run With Firewatir?

Posted in Watir at 5:00 pm by Željko Filipin

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:

Firewatir does not see page text the same way as Watir does:
- Watir would see “logged in as name”.
- Firewatir would see “logged in as\n\nname”.
Firefox sees relative urls in links, while Internet Explorer sees apsolute paths:
- Watir would see “page.htm”.
- Firewatir would see “domain.com/page.htm”.

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.

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02.07.08

Watir and Pop Ups

Posted in Watir at 2:16 pm by Željko Filipin

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.

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11.26.07

Smoke on the Watir

Posted in Events, Watir at 12:21 pm by Željko Filipin

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.

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