Mark’s Thoughts

I have had conversations about using Watir to script tests for more than a year.  I recently took a job where the software that I am testing is web-based and can be tested with Watir.  There are a couple of issues that I’ve found trying to do what I want with Watir.  I’m going to start a series where I will:

• describe what I’m trying to do and why
• describe how I’d like to solve the problem, pointing to similar Watir functions
• describe how I’ve worked around the issue for now.
• ask for other ways to accomplish my goals

I look forward to being able to contribute some of these solutions to Watir if they are needed.

I still feel like I am learning Ruby, but went ahead and downloaded the Watir source code yesterday while writing the draft of this post and got the unit tests running this evening while editing it.

Look for posts on frames and dialogs in the next couple of days.