Comments on: Watir, Selenium & WebDriver http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/ A 93% Watir Based Blog by Alister Scott Fri, 25 May 2012 15:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Watirgrid Support for Watir-Webdriver « Altentee » Performance & Test Automation Experts http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-1022 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:11:53 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-1022 [...] Watirgrid Support for Watir-Webdriver With the growing popularity of watir-webdriver I’ve decided to uplift watirgrid to support this newer approach. For installation instructions of Watir on top of WebDriver there is a good post on the topic by Željko Filipin. There’s also some musings on the ‘why’ of watir-webdriver at Alister Scott’s blog, WatirMelon. [...]

]]> By: CJ http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-1021 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:38:03 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-1021 Thanx for taking the time to put together all this great information!

]]> By: MikeR http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-701 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:04:49 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-701 This is a very good blog post. Just to mention an alternative, we use iMacros for IE/Firefox/Chrome on our web monitoring platform: http://wiki.alertfox.com/Monitoring_Server

It can be controlled from any language via the so called iMacros “Scripting Interface”, which is technically a COM object.

iMacros is a commercial solution, but part of the code is open source e. g. their Firefox and Chrome addons.

]]> By: Joe Strain http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-693 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:38:05 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-693 Outstanding blog. Great news to learn about the combined forces of watir and selinium .. will make for some fun times at work

]]> By: Peter http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-669 Thu, 13 May 2010 07:22:14 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-669 This blog has successfully help decide on what open source automation testing tool to use between selenium and watir.

Another gain was the insight you gave on integration of selenium and watir tools together (a combo of the best) in couple of months.

Thanks a million Reddy

]]> By: Scott Sims http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-668 Wed, 12 May 2010 16:04:14 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-668 Alister,
You did an excellent job of explaining the history and future plans for the three software products mentioned.
Do you know if watir can run tests in parallel through IE 8 on the same machine? If so I am looking forward to this improvement for selenium. As of now for Selenium Grid users, you can only start one browser remote control for internet explorer for IE per operating machine. It is because of a shared memory problem. I blogged about it here http://scottcsims.com/wordpress/?p=121. So if Selenium starts using the watir API for internet explorer, this would be excellent.
Their is one other aspect that I will be interested in. When I write an automated test, the same code must work for all browsers. I have found that the locator you use to interact with page elements have to be tested for every browser. I solved most of this by using css selectors instead of xpath. Otherwise you end up putting conditional logic in your test to do something one way for IE and another way for Fire Fox. So hopefully, it will be easier to write a test once and verify that it will work in every browser. I have some information here about centralizing page locators and executing one block of test code against code on different environments and browsers. http://scottcsims.com/wordpress/?p=185

]]> By: Alister Scott http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-636 Tue, 04 May 2010 09:33:38 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-636 It’s in a pre-release (alpha) at the moment. As soon as the bugs are ironed out, it should be released. A couple of months I imagine.

]]> By: Alister Scott http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-635 Tue, 04 May 2010 09:32:35 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-635 Thank you for your nice comment Reddy.

]]> By: Reddy http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-616 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:35:30 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-616 Hello Alister Scott,

Wow just came across your blog , it is the best blog for software Testers.
You shared so much of your knowledge from your profession in such a simple , crisp way it is worth weeks of time saved to somebody involved in software development/testing.

By the way I used to be a software engineer.

Your passion to share the knowledge is great. We see many people share tips and bits of code here and there but that won’t help with out your way of complete dedication to an specific area. If 1% of all software people have the energy , passion to share as you have shown in this blog ( the complete way), we can reduce the software development cost 20% .
Your blog is model for a modern 21 st century worker. Be it a painter, carpenter, doctor, software engineer it showed a way how to teach the world what you know.
Hats off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Lenny http://watirmelon.com/2010/04/10/watir-selenium-webdriver/#comment-614 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:53:56 +0000 http://watirmelon.com/?p=386#comment-614 Exciting news. Is there a timeframe on when this code will come out?

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