Re: [wtr-general] Re: Recent Stack Overflow Questions Tagged Watir

2011-03-14 Thread Željko Filipin
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5285776/how-do-i-check-for-text-inside-a-div -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.c

[wtr-general] Re: Re-Usable Load Testing with Watir : Optimize loadtester.rb

2011-03-14 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Generally speaking, in order to handle a large pool of threads and be able to scale the load, most loadtesting is done at the protocol (HTTP) level, not using full blown browser based clients. Since most load is not from simple page hits against static or cached pages, you need to actually be inte

[wtr-general] Re: error message

2011-03-14 Thread Chuck van der Linden
I agree. The other possibility is that the server is sending different HTML, perhap using an older technique like frames etc, to do something that is done another way in FF, but can't be done that way in IE, because IE doesn't support it. You might want to view source, and save it for both pages

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Re-Usable Load Testing with Watir : Optimize loadtester.rb

2011-03-14 Thread Tim Koopmans
Personally I've used WatirGrid[1] with great success, I used it to drive 50 browsers concurrently. 50 is not the ceiling, I was just limited by how many boxes I had at hand. The limitation with browser based testing is the resources required on which to drive the browsers! BrowserMob have reduced

[wtr-general] Re: Windows IE9 support?

2011-03-14 Thread A.Denter
I got exactly the same problem with IE9 (rc). Even with the very simple google script that works on all the other IE versions: ... require 'rubygems' require 'watir' b = Watir::Browser.new b.goto 'www.google.com' b.text_field(:name => 'q').set '\"alien life forms\"' b.button(:name => 'btnG').click

[wtr-general] Watir Book

2011-03-14 Thread Željko Filipin
Hi, I have started writing a book on Watir. My family has agreed that I can work on the book for about 8 hours almost every Saturday. The source (markdown) will always be free at Github[1] and I plan to sell the pdf for $9. I know I will not get rich by writing a book on Watir, but some money wou

Re: [wtr-general] Watir Book

2011-03-14 Thread Tim Koopmans
Just bought a copy! Well done Željko for taking the initiative. I look forward to the end result =) Cheers, Tim @90kts On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Željko Filipin < zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > I have started writing a book on Watir. My family has agreed that I can > w

Re: [wtr-general] Re: Windows IE9 support?

2011-03-14 Thread Trampus Richmond
In my case I found that the page I was hitting had this in it: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> When I removed this IE9-RC was able to click the button. It is still an issue for me, which I posted and Charley Baker posted back saying he was going to look into it. --Trampus