We have Watir 1.6.2 and Ruby 1.8.6. We have MANY Watir/Test/Unit scripts
which we (well, I) mainly use to help with exploratory testing, and to
verify releases. I can't live without these scripts, so I don't want to
break them. At the same time, I want to try the latest Watir and Webdriver
to see
Hi,
Earlier I use Watir unit test frawework and I can enter values in
readonly textfield using “.value” method :
$ie.text_field(:id, 'targetSSRepsSelected').value=”some value”
I upgraded to Watir Webdriver.
Now same code fails with error “ReadOnlyException”.
Source Code from browser[IE] is :
Pure and simple, try it out. Get a box that can run the latest code, and
run it there. There's a problem, if you don't update production code and
also test code to the latest version when they come out. I've seen this
happen over and over again where no one is ready for the latest versions,
and
I've been playing with watir-webdriver. So far, I'm liking it but one thing
that drove me a little batty was the behavior described here:
http://watirmelon.com/2011/08/02/watir-webdriver-obselete-element-error/
And it does use 0-based indexing, which is a change from 1.6.2. I think the
newer,
Over time Watir and Watir-webdriver have become more stringent about
not letting you do something that a real human user could not do.
This is because in large part watir is designed to drive the browser
like a user would, in that respect it makes little sense to allow you
to do something a user
I think the only way you will now what the actual pain to upgrade to the
newest version is is to actually upgrade. in saying that
Why not make a clone of the current repository on a different machine or a
VM
install ruby on that vm(other machine) and all the gems you need and let
her rip
then try
I've been doing a bunch of this sort of work at my current job so I
have the following advice. (something else I should do a blog posting
about)
Step zero, decide if you are going to make the scripts try to run
under both the newer Watir and Watir-Webdriver, or just WW. If the
former I suggest
