[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-19 Thread G
I've been using Watir to write tools for the ExtJS desktop environment. In this; every time anything is done, random IDs are generated, which makes it 'challenging'. Luckily, most similar elements (for instance form text entry fields) are the same. So I've designed a set of functions which

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-15 Thread karimnumerouno
IE developer tool bar is good, but at times the IE browser get stuck some time when the IE developer tool bar is open, i had a problem with the same on vista, firebug is better in that case. On May 15, 9:18 am, Lokesh Agrawal lokesh.agra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks for the reply. I

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-15 Thread Jarmo Pertman
On May 15, 7:18 am, Lokesh Agrawal lokesh.agra...@gmail.com wrote: I found one framework with this approach: JAF (http://90kts.com/blog/ 2008/just-another-framework-for-developing-watir-test-cases/). But I have not used it so doesn't know if this is helpful or not. (As this framework is

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-15 Thread karimnumerouno
guys, justaddwatir.com this is also a nice help for most frequently asked questions on watir group, it seems to be a very helpful article Karim Rayani On May 15, 2:51 pm, Jarmo Pertman jarm...@gmail.com wrote: On May 15, 7:18 am, Lokesh Agrawal lokesh.agra...@gmail.com wrote: I found one

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-15 Thread Chuck van der Linden
Jim is right on the money here, I'm probably going to somewhat end up restating what he said. This issue of finding a consistent way to identify the objects within the dom is not unique to Watir, it exists for ALL automation tools to one degree or another. Watir provides a large variety of ways

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-14 Thread karim rayani
when doing automation, any testing tool has the concept of object identification be it QTP, SILKTEST etc, you can try to use indexing if possible for object identification, the developer can change the name, id etc indexing can help, but mind you that can also change if the devs donot understand

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-14 Thread Vicky Goyal
If you use IDE, that would help you to work little better. Dunno if you using that or not. Apart from that, i don't think there would be a solution.. only developers should feel little mercy.. :) On May 14, 12:02 pm, Lokesh Agrawal lokesh.agra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Alkarim, Is there any

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-14 Thread karim rayani
you can use the IE developer tool bar on IE and firebug on firefox for object identification, there is no special object spy which i know off for watir, i largely believe these are the tools which are widely used for object identification for watir. If there is any thing for object spying like

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Matthews
...@hotmail.com wrote: I use a tool called PageSpy.   http://www.sembel.net/ - Shelton Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:37:00 +0530 Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir From: karim@gmail.com To: watir-general@googlegroups.com you can use the IE developer

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-14 Thread Željko Filipin
2009/5/14 Jim Matthews jim_m...@swbell.net If they don't respond, then you should talk to your manager who is interested in having automated tests +1 Željko --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Watir

[wtr-general] Re: Help needed in automation using Watir

2009-05-14 Thread Lokesh Agrawal
Hi All, Thanks for the reply. I am already using IE development toolbar, but that's not the issue. I think Jim is very much clear in his statement and I have to talk to developers and manager for this problem. BUT I think it will be good for future of Watir if we can have some object