Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

Jari Bakken just released Watir on WebDriver.

On Windows, install it with

gem install watir-webdriver

and use it with

require "rubygems" # optional
require "watir-webdriver"
browser = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox)

Supported browsers are Internet Explorer (:ie, :internet_explorer), Firefox (:ff, :firefox), Chrome (:chrome) and RemoteWebDriver Server (:remote).

Update 1: as Steve suggested, I have tried it on RubyInstaller.

Install RubyInstaller, DevKit and all required gems and it just works!

gem install watir-webdriver
gem install win32-process

Update 2: It works on Mac.

My Mac came with Ruby and RubyGems installed, so it was just:

sudo gem install watir-webdriver

Update 3: It works on Ubuntu Linux.

My Ubuntu did not have Ruby and RubyGems installed.

Install Ruby with:

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

You can install RubyGems with:

sudo apt-get install rubygems

but Jari said it would be better to install it from source. Downland the latest RubyGems tgz or zip file (rubygems-1.3.5.tgz and rubygems-1.3.5.zip at the moment), extract it, open Terminal in extracted folder and run:

sudo ruby setup.rb

Install watir-webdriver:

sudo gem1.8 install watir-webdriver

Update 4: watir-webdriver is no longer prerelase gem, so installation is simpler.

Recently I became Watir community manager.

Watir team had a little chat and we decided it would be a good idea to grow. So, one of the first duties I had as community manager was to promote two community members to support sheriffs.

I am glad I can announce that Tiffany Fodor and Wesley Chen have accepted to be added to Watir community team with title of support sheriff.

Tiffany answers a lot of questions and Wesley is helping us moderate the group. I hope both of them will continue with business as usual.

If you have a nice word for them, now is the time.

AWTA 2009 Saturday

AWTA 2009 was a lot of fun. At Notes from AWTA 2009 you can find a lot of images, notes, podcasts, blog posts, presentations, twitter feed…

It was great to finally meet in person a lot of people I knew on-line for years. I have learned a lot how other people test. Also, Austin and Texas were very interesting to explore. I think all is already said about AWTA 2009. I just hope I will be there the next year too.

AWTA 2009 Sunday