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Comment on Using Watir-WebDriver with Safari (at last!) by sambehera

sambehera — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:18:26 +0000

I figured out how to make it work with Safari.. with help from the Selenium WebDriver community on google groups!

All you need is this line in the terminal:

gem install selenium-webdriver –pre

This solves the issue since the latest release of SafariDriver is backwards incompatible

Comment on Embedding Watir-WebDriver screenshots in Cucumber html results by Jun

Jun — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:27:26 +0000

It works well. However, I want to remind others who use this trick to pay attention to the relative folder path. You must put the screenshot png files’ relative path from the html file, not the relative path from the folder where you run cucumber. I know it is simple. However, it is easy to ignore this detail.

Comment on Five page object anti-patterns by sambehera

sambehera — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:48:25 +0000

Thank you so much! this helped reduce my test suite time by half! You are my Watir Hero!

Comment on Using Watir-WebDriver with Safari (at last!) by Alister Scott

Alister Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:24:56 +0000

Yes, as this post says, it’s very early days.
Firefox and Chrome are much, much more stable, and Chrome uses the same rendering engine as Safari (WebKit) so you should get similar rendering.

Comment on Using Watir-WebDriver with Safari (at last!) by sambehera

sambehera — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:21:25 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll raise a bug and post on the Selenium User Group. In the meantime, I guess I have to wait for the Driver to become more stable..

Comment on Using Watir-WebDriver with Safari (at last!) by Alister Scott

Alister Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:14:31 +0000

You could start on the SafariDriver page: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver#Reporting_Bugs
You can either raise a bug, or put a post on the Selenium User Group. Maybe Stackoverflow may help too.

Comment on Using Watir-WebDriver with Safari (at last!) by sambehera

sambehera — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:09:49 +0000

im getting the same error as dmcnulla and jun. Any advice as to where I can find a resolution?

Comment on Five page object anti-patterns by Alister Scott

Alister Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:08:59 +0000

I’ve updated the example with this code to only open and close the browser once: https://gist.github.com/2773042

See: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/RSpec

Comment on Five page object anti-patterns by sambehera

sambehera — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:31:36 +0000

Hey Alister,

I’m currently using the template from http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/RSpec in my test suite which uses RSpec and Watir-Webdriver..

how do I incorporate your code to “open and close the browser only once in RSpec” so that I can experience a speedup in my test suite? I tried copy/pasting your code to the top of my codebase but that didn’t seem to work.

Comment on Five page object anti-patterns by sambehera

sambehera — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:29:00 +0000

Hey Allister,

I’m currently running a test script using the template from the watir webpage on rspec.
http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/RSpec

but I definitely want to have the speedup by not opening and closing the browser every time I run a test.

How do I incorporate your code “To open and close the browser only once in RSpec” into my codebase?