[wtr-general] Name of the currently running methods

2009-04-06 Thread Vikas Tulashyam
Hi, Can I get the name of the currently running methods with the class and package name. like-- class A def method() puts nameofThecurrentMethod end end let suppose there is a method nameofThecurrentMethod which prints the name of the currently running method. Is it possible in Watir? Tha

[wtr-general] Re: Test Automation? Pashaw!

2009-04-06 Thread Alister Scott
You could always define your tests in a wiki and update the results directly to there! A good way to get everyone involved in what you are running and what the results are. Some more info on my blog: http://watirmelon.wordpress.com/category/wiki/ (shameless plug!) Cheers, Alister Scott Brisbane,

[wtr-general] Re: FireWatir 1.6.2 unittests don't run

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Carvalho
I opened Jira ticket #WTR-301 to address the problem. I'll look over the wiki information again and see what I can do to help clarify the steps to get up and running until the problem is addressed in a future gem release/install. The present wiki information seems to be really geared towards dev

[wtr-general] Re: Where to run the script

2009-04-06 Thread spike
it worked, thanks a lot On Apr 6, 5:07 pm, Željko Filipin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 13:58, spike wrote: > > include Watir > > Remove this from your script and try again. > > > no such file to > > load -- safariwatir (MissingSourceFile) > > Not sure how you got this error message. Maybe "

[wtr-general] Re: Where to run the script

2009-04-06 Thread spike
it worked, thanks a lot On Apr 6, 5:05 pm, Angrez Singh wrote: > remove Include Watir line from your file > > - Angrez > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, spike wrote: > > > i'm not able to run the script from SciTE. I typed in the following > > script saved it and clicked F5. > > require '

[wtr-general] Re: How to Drag and Drop a DIV element in Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Satish Jantli
Hi Chuck, Thanks for your suggestion, i will try fireEvent and let you know, even i will take to dev if they can help me out with this. regards, jonty On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Chuck van der Linden wrote: > > if divs are draggable around the screen it's due to javascript running > on the

[wtr-general] Re: Flash with watir

2009-04-06 Thread Anna Gabutero
Also, keep in mind that FlashWatir is not a universal solution to testing Flash. It can only see the functions that the Flash app chooses to expose to JavaScript. So testing a random app on the web isn't likely to work; testing an in-house app will require talking to your developers about exposi

[wtr-general] Re: Test Automation? Pashaw!

2009-04-06 Thread George
Good tips, Chuck. We currently have SharePoint (although we're getting rid of it in the future...not sure why, though), so I'll need to figure out how to link the HTML report from there. I'll look into this...thanks! On Apr 6, 1:21 pm, Chuck van der Linden wrote: > write the results to HTML

[wtr-general] Re: How to click on a table cell based on the text string that I know. Ex:- Wilmington.

2009-04-06 Thread satish
Its actually just text not a link. My table has columns 'Agency', City, State. Each row will have data populated. I will have to select a row based on the 'Agency' I want, then only the "OK" button will get Enabled. Once I select a 'Agency' I could select "OK" button. Thanks Satish On Apr 6, 6

[wtr-general] Re: how to work with inner tags like td etc..

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
answered in other thread On Apr 6, 3:25 pm, satish wrote: > I have one more question please. > > I have a table inside that I have 3X3 rows/columns. > I need to select a cell based on text. > > Please tell me how to deal with this. > > HTML tag for the cell is attached under TD tag as #text > Ex

[wtr-general] Re: How to click on a table cell based on the text string that I know. Ex:- Wilmington.

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
is there something more inside the cell than just the text? because normally 'selecting' a table cell does nothing. If there's something in there that you can act on, maybe you should try to address that element, using (:text, 'textyouknow) to identify it. If you need to be sure it's inside th

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread Charley Baker
SemiOT: Javascript can also tend to cause memory leaks in browsers. There are some best practices out there as well as a tool called jsleaks I believe. If your pages are using js, then that's something to check into. It could actually be a bug. -c On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Chuck van der

[wtr-general] How to click on a table cell based on the text string that I know. Ex:- Wilmington.

2009-04-06 Thread satish
I have a table inside that I have 3X3 rows/columns. I need to select a cell based on text. Please tell me how to deal with this. HTML tag for the cell is attached under TD tag as #text Ex:- Wilmington Thank you very much. Appreciate your help. Satish --~--~-~--~~

[wtr-general] Re: how to work with inner tags like td etc..

2009-04-06 Thread satish
I have one more question please. I have a table inside that I have 3X3 rows/columns. I need to select a cell based on text. Please tell me how to deal with this. HTML tag for the cell is attached under TD tag as #text Ex:- Wilmington On Apr 6, 4:50 pm, Chuck van der Linden wrote: > does

[wtr-general] Re: how to work with inner tags like td etc..

2009-04-06 Thread satish
You are wonderful. Thank you very very much for your help. :) Satish On Apr 6, 4:50 pm, Chuck van der Linden wrote: > does the outer table had a good way to identify it?  does the inner > table exist inside a specific cell of the outer table? > > You might try using .flash to see if you can sor

[wtr-general] Speeding up unit testing for Rails projects

2009-04-06 Thread Pete Dignan
Hi everyone. There is a new startup here in Colorado that is doing something pretty cool for Ruby/Rails development projects. Full disclosure - I have a (tiny) investment in the company and provide advice to them from time to time. Agile Developers may spend (waste?) up to an hour a day waiting

[wtr-general] Re: watir 1.6.2 installation problem

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
On Apr 4, 11:11 am, kiran wrote: > Thank you bret..its workinghow to use for for firefox > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Browser.new --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" grou

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Your original script would probably work if you'd had the correct value for the ID. You were using the id of the DIV that contained the select list, when you wanted the id value for the SELECT list itself were you ripping the values from the code itself using view source, or were you using the I

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
the big question is what's using the memory. its it IE itself, or something else. (you might be able to tell by using taskman, or better yet perfmon to look at privatebytes of a few things while the script runs) On Apr 6, 1:57 pm, IDIEININIIS wrote: > Thanks guys. > > @Darin, > > There actua

[wtr-general] Re: How to Drag and Drop a DIV element in Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
if divs are draggable around the screen it's due to javascript running on the client, since that's not a normal behavior in an html page all on it's own. You should probably talk to your devs to find out how it's being done. I suspect you might end up having to do something like firing the mous

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread IDIEININIIS
Thanks guys. @Darin, There actually is a puts statement and a counter, I just didn't add it to the example code because puts seemed to be working fine (i.e. it wasn't printing out super large amounts of text). @Chuck, I noticed that as well, that it starts to hog memory. Closing and re-opening

[wtr-general] Re: how to work with inner tags like td etc..

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
does the outer table had a good way to identify it? does the inner table exist inside a specific cell of the outer table? You might try using .flash to see if you can sort of work your way in from the outside. Potentially (this is theory, I've got no good site I can think of to hit and see if t

[wtr-general] Re: Flash with watir

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
For FlashWatir support, you'd probably be best off contacting the developer of flashwatir directly since I don't see that they have a forum or anything listed on the google code page for it. Your example below appears to be just a slightly edited version of their generic example code, Most likel

[wtr-general] how to work with inner tags like td etc..

2009-04-06 Thread satish
I apologise for my questions, I am very new to this watir tool. Login To Agency Here I have to get the name in side the table, as you can see there is no id

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
I would also look for opportunities where you could close and re-open the browser. IE can be a bit of a memory pig I've noticed, and if you are going to page after page after page with it, it will eventually grow to use a lot of memory. if it really was the text method in watir (or some ie/windo

[wtr-general] Re: Test Automation? Pashaw!

2009-04-06 Thread Chuck van der Linden
write the results to HTML on a network share everyone can access, send mail when the test finishes that the results are available (or better yet embed the report in the mail)..or link to it from sharepont or your team wiki or whatever collaboration tools you are using. (see the html reporting

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread Darin Duphorn
I guess I would add a puts statement or add a counter to see which iteration it's failing on. -Original Message- From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:watir-gene...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of IDIEININIIS Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:42 PM To: Watir General Subject: [wtr-gen

[wtr-general] Re: IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread IDIEININIIS
My bad, I meant to say "Here is the error message:". The line of code where the error originates from, basically looks like this: ie.div(path).text The command is in a loop and 'path' is a variable. On Apr 6, 4:24 pm, "Dennis I." wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was running a script and after a

[wtr-general] IE out of memory error (buffer overflow)

2009-04-06 Thread Dennis I.
Hi everyone, I was running a script and after a while an IE message popped up saying it was out of memory. I believe it's a buffer overflow from using the text method a lot. Here is the code: --- The remote procedure call failed. from (eval):3:in `class_name' from C:/Ruby/lib/r

[wtr-general] Re: Test Automation? Pashaw!

2009-04-06 Thread Lisa Crispin
Hi George, I appreciate the plugs for the book from Paul and Chris (and it's the contributions from them and other folks like them that make the book helpful!) Does your team do any regression testing? If so, and if you don't have these tests automated, who is doing the manual regression tests? W

[wtr-general] Flash with watir

2009-04-06 Thread kiran
Hi all, Is it posible to test flash on the web? I am using following code # include the controller require 'flash_watir' include FireWatir # create an instance of the controller browser = Firefox.new # go to the flash page you want to test browser.goto('http://www.geocities.com/paulocaroli/flash

[wtr-general] Flash with watir

2009-04-06 Thread kiran
Hi all, Is it posible to test flash on the web? I am using following code # include the controller require 'flash_watir' include FireWatir # create an instance of the controller browser = Firefox.new # go to the flash page you want to test browser.goto('http://www.geocities.com/paulocaroli/flash

[wtr-general] Re: Test Automation? Pashaw!

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Fry
This conversation tends to be quite unproductive when it becomes "is or isn't test automation useful." It's a lot like "Are books useful?" Books won't solve any problems on their own. There are plenty of problems that books will not help with a bit. There are /some/ problems where /the right/ book

[wtr-general] Flash with watir

2009-04-06 Thread kiran
Hi all, Is it posible to test flash on the web? I am using following code # include the controller require 'flash_watir' include FireWatir # create an instance of the controller browser = Firefox.new # go to the flash page you want to test browser.goto('http://www.geocities.com/paulocaroli/flash

[wtr-general] Re: Test Automation? Pashaw!

2009-04-06 Thread George
Right now, I'm creating simple regression tests that we can run after every patch/version update. And, you're right - there isn't much of a chance of these tests failing. We're automating this because it's boring to do manually. As far as the quick win, I have already completed quite a few scri

[wtr-general] Re: undefined method `button' for # (NoMethodError)

2009-04-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
This error means the $ie variable contains an array (not a browser). You have code somewhere that is doing this. Shweta wrote: > Hi > > Am using arrays in my script to test with multiple data,the scenario > is in my application i have a search page there i am able to search > with different crit

[wtr-general] Re: ff.frame(:index,1).button(:index, 2) does not work?

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Hwee
That is strange. Your email summary said "index,2", but you used "index,0" Index is based 1. - Original Message From: jason To: Watir General Sent: Friday, April 3, 2009 10:23:14 AM Subject: [wtr-general] ff.frame(:index,1).button(:index, 2) does not work? has anyone an idea abo

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Recorder

2009-04-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
I don't think any of the recorders have been updated to work with Watir 1.6.x. vladimir...@hotmail.com wrote: > My team does not have strong programming experience. > Recording can be a starting point that speeds up the script > development. > What Watir recorder do you recommend? > -- Bre

[wtr-general] Re: FireWatir 1.6.2 unittests don't run

2009-04-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
Paul, Could you update the wiki with this information please? Bret Paul Carvalho wrote: > Well that advice was fairly useless. > > I wasted time on a wild goose chase through wiki pages until I got > around to downloading the original source. I copied the new FireWatir > folder and, of course

[wtr-general] Re: Open-source in test automation

2009-04-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
Please see www.watircraft.com/training for my current training. alex.ikhelis wrote: > Hi guys! > > This is the thing, BTW :): Homebrew Test Automation training by Bret > http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/papers/homebrew_test_automation_200409.pdf > > And some articles related to it: > http://adtmag.com/

[wtr-general] Re: SelectList behaves differently with 1.6.2?

2009-04-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
There was this fix to the wait logic: * Fix for "undefined method 'document'" error that was occuring when loading pages with frames that were slow to load. Reported here: http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/ddde6251e30588c9 Based on your previous description, I do

[wtr-general] Re: Is there an easy way to see if specific text exists inside a div?

2009-04-06 Thread Bret Pettichord
Chuck van der Linden wrote: > The harder part is purging all the examples that have been printed out > and pinned to walls... > > Is there any way to display some kind of readme (where we could list > things like this) when someone updates a gem? > No. The standard method is to issue a warning

[wtr-general] How to Drag and Drop a DIV element in Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Jonty
Hi All, I want your help to findout how should I Automate Drag and Drop a element to another element (other than using JavaScript) HTML code: destination: i tried the following but it didnt work: ie.text_field(:id, "ext-gem-532").dragContentsTo(:id, "ext-gem-616") ERROR: unknown property

[wtr-general] Re: Watir returns first element found. How to return all elements found?

2009-04-06 Thread IDIEININIIS
@George, Yes they are all divs. @Tiffany, Hi Tiffany, I am trying to get a list of all the objects that are similar. I'm dealing with nested divs in my case. E.g.) I'm after all div class="b" (I didn't expand div class a, b and c in this case. But they contain info.)

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Recorder++ and Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 06:57, spike wrote: > I've installed watir recorder++ and i'm getting an error while > playback This is not watir recorder support forum. They have their own forum, so you should ask there. Let me know if you can not find their forum and I will send you the link. Željko -

[wtr-general] Re: Watir Recorder++ and Watir

2009-04-06 Thread bwaybandit
Did you by any chance install this as admin and are trying to run it as a regular user? Might want to check your permissions? i played with watir recorder++ a long while back and never had problems with watir not working after that. A suggestion though - try to stay away from the recording tools

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Angrez Singh
see this http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Selection+Boxes - Angrez On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:48 PM, bwaybandit wrote: > > you mean what is the "method" for selecting a value from the list. > > Try 'select' > > On Apr 6, 8:10 am, spike wrote: > > Ya that's ok, but wat is the script for selecti

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread bwaybandit
you mean what is the "method" for selecting a value from the list. Try 'select' On Apr 6, 8:10 am, spike wrote: > Ya that's ok, but wat is the script for selecting a value from the > list. > > On Apr 6, 4:02 pm, JArkelen wrote: > > > You should use "ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ddlSelectSuperviso

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread spike
Ya that's ok, but wat is the script for selecting a value from the list. On Apr 6, 4:02 pm, JArkelen wrote: > You should use "ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ddlSelectSupervisor" as the > id for the select, not the id of the label > > On Apr 6, 12:09 pm, Angrez Singh wrote: > > > > > you are try

[wtr-general] Re: Where to run the script

2009-04-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 13:58, spike wrote: > include Watir Remove this from your script and try again. > no such file to > load -- safariwatir (MissingSourceFile) Not sure how you got this error message. Maybe "include Watir" causes it. Željko --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[wtr-general] Re: Where to run the script

2009-04-06 Thread Angrez Singh
remove Include Watir line from your file - Angrez On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, spike wrote: > > i'm not able to run the script from SciTE. I typed in the following > script saved it and clicked F5. > require 'Watir' > include Watir > ie = Watir::IE.new > ie.goto "http://www.google.com/"; > i

[wtr-general] Re: Where to run the script

2009-04-06 Thread spike
i'm not able to run the script from SciTE. I typed in the following script saved it and clicked F5. require 'Watir' include Watir ie = Watir::IE.new ie.goto "http://www.google.com/"; ie.url == "http://www.google.co.in/"; In the output panel I'm getting the following data >ruby startgoogle.rb C:/

[wtr-general] Re: Where to run the script

2009-04-06 Thread Željko Filipin
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:58, spike wrote: > I'm using watir tool currently i'm running the script in Command > prompt. Is it the right way? or should i run the script in SciTE. I am running Watir scripts from command prompt for years. Works just fine. I have tried to run them from Scite and Netb

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread JArkelen
You should use "ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ddlSelectSupervisor" as the id for the select, not the id of the label On Apr 6, 12:09 pm, Angrez Singh wrote: > you are trying to access select_list using id of label. I think watir is > right in not recognizing the element. Correct? > > ie.select_l

[wtr-general] Where to run the script

2009-04-06 Thread spike
Hi I'm using watir tool currently i'm running the script in Command prompt. Is it the right way? or should i run the script in SciTE. Please suggest me a solution. thankingyou --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

[wtr-general] Re: Get script name within the script

2009-04-06 Thread Jarmo Pertman
You could also use variable called __FILE__ On Mar 25, 9:31 am, "vladimir...@hotmail.com" wrote: > Thank you very much, Bill. > > The idea is to name the results file for each script in a test set by > the name of the script. > All scripts use Test::Unit class and have the same setup method. > I

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread Angrez Singh
you are trying to access select_list using id of label. I think watir is right in not recognizing the element. Correct? ie.select_list(:id, "ct100_ContentPlaceHolder1_IbISupervisor"). "ct100_ContentPlaceHolder1_IbISupervisor" is ID for span & not select_list. As per your HTML code "ctl00_Content

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread spike
hello sir I used ur solution but its not working i'm getting the following error irb(main):011:0> ie.select_list(:id, "ct100_ContentPlaceHolder1_IbISupervisor"). set("Select") Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException: Unable to locate element, using :id, " ct100_ContentPlaceHolder1_IbISupervisor

[wtr-general] Re: Performance Testing

2009-04-06 Thread Tim Koopmans
At the company where I work using oss tools for performance testing (www.altentee.com) we often use JMeter to 'spin up the wheels' or as Chuck put it, conduct 'protocol' level testing. At the same time we also run a quasi-smoke test if you like, using Watir to conduct 'browser' level testing. Pro

[wtr-general] Re: Regex in the link's text

2009-04-06 Thread Jarmo Pertman
Or, since vb is already a string, then even cleaner syntax would be: ie.link(:text, Regexp.new(vb)).click Also, Netbeans for example doesn't mess syntax highlighting up with the /#{vb}/ solution. Jarmo On Mar 24, 9:31 pm, "vladimir...@hotmail.com" wrote: > Thank you, Bret. This syntax is clean

[wtr-general] Re: Watir

2009-04-06 Thread JArkelen
Perhaps you should set the select element and not the span element? (And could you please give your topic a more meaningful name instead of 'watir'?) Cheers, John On Apr 6, 8:35 am, spike wrote: > Hi > > The following is the code written for a check list. > > align="right"> >