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Comment on How to start writing web test scripts with Ruby and Watir by jimhmatthews

jimhmatthews — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:57:17 +0000

You need to make the following changes:

Change require ‘test/unit’ to require ‘watir/testcase’

Change module NewTest to class NewTest < Watir::TestCase

and add test_ to def asserttest

so the final test looks like:

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require ‘watir’
require ‘watir/testcase’

class NewTest < Watir::TestCase
def test_asserttest

puts “\n Hello testing assert through module”

assert(1 ==1,”failed assertion”)

puts ‘assert succeeded’

end

end
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I suggest you look at the watir-general google group.

A lot of questions have already been answered there.

http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general

Jim

Comment on How to start writing web test scripts with Ruby and Watir by Natasha Ranney

Natasha Ranney — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:09:50 +0000

Hi,

This is a very useful article. I have already started modularizing my watir tests.

I was intermittently testing the integration as well. Then I went ahead and created 7-8 modules. Now when I integrated my individual test script with all these modules, its suddenly failing. I really need help as I am a beginner in Ruby and no one in my company has tried it out.

Please could you help me.

Basically If the following statement in my module method fails saying that its not recognizing assert method:
assert(1 ==1,”failed assertion”)

I have added the following require statements to the start of my module:

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require ‘watir’
require ‘test/unit’

module NewTest

def asserttest

puts “\n Hello testing assert through module”

assert(1 ==1,”failed assertion”)

puts ‘assert succeeded’

end

end
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Thanks,
Natasha

Comment on How to start writing web test scripts with Ruby and Watir by omer

omer — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:12:45 +0000

Wow, this is an excellant tutorial for beginner like me ..thank you

Comment on What to do in a Watir test if you don’t have a unique id by Jon

Jon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:31:48 +0000

I just ran into the same issue using WatiN C# on a page that has 2 anchor links with the same name=”0″ id and I needed to retrieve the second one. im still working on getting it to work but this article helps me because it validates that other people have had this issue.

Comment on What to do in a Watir test if you don’t have a unique id by jimhmatthews

jimhmatthews — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:57:07 +0000

I am not sure what woodo code is. I know the way to make the most resilient tests is to have unique ids on all the controls you use.

That said, I strongly believe in using whatever tools work best for a particular situation. If this tool provides value, then use it.

Jim

Comment on What to do in a Watir test if you don’t have a unique id by ftorres

ftorres — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:15:33 +0000

When implementing functional web testing and the html controls have unique id or name attribute, you end up writing a lot of woodo code.

With InCisif.net we created something we call the “HTML Control Naming Algorithm” that will find what can be the best unique identifier at record time.

This solve more cases but not all, then you can use the following
methods that can find any HTML control based on their tag, any attribute using regular expression. And it is not XPath.

Page.ControlBy
Page.ControlOfType
Page.ElementsByTagName

These methods also support C# lambda expression so can write yourself the C# code that describe the HTML control you are looking for.

Frederic Torres
http://www.InCisif.net
Web Testing with C# or VB.NET

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Comment on How to start writing web test scripts with Ruby and Watir by jimhmatthews

jimhmatthews — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:25:03 +0000

Željko is absolutely right. That was my mistake and why I keep referring you to the documentation for Watir and Ruby.

I have edited the blog so you will only find “radio” and not “radiobutton” in case someone just reads the blog without the comments.

Thank you Željko,

Jim

Comment on How to start writing web test scripts with Ruby and Watir by Željko

Željko — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:43:53 +0000

Hi Jim,

There is a minor mistake. Watir refers to a radio button as a “radio” , not “radiobutton”.