[Wtr-general] Excel Interface Class

2007-03-02 Thread Brown, David
I've posted an Excel Interface class which I've developed over the past few months on the Watir openqa.org site under contributions: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Excel+interface+class This class provides simple methods for reading data records from Excel spreadsheets, hides the complexities

Re: [Wtr-general] Excel Interface Class - extend to openoffice/google spreadsheets

2007-03-06 Thread Brown, David
I currently don't have the time/motivation to extend the excel interface class to work with Open Office and Google spreadsheet, however, If someone really needs to do this it shouldn't be too difficult. Only the following methods of the XLS class contain excel specific commands that would need to b

Re: [Wtr-general] Excel Interface Class

2007-03-07 Thread Brown, David
I have noticed that this site (wiki.openqa.org) works fine with firefox but doesn't seem to work with internet explorer. -David From: swarna latha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 6:49 PM To: Brown, David Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Wtr-general] Re-Usable Load Testing Example using Watir.

2007-03-15 Thread Brown, David
FYI - I've published a Re-Usable Load Testing Example under the Contributions section of the openqa watir website which demonstrates how to execute watir scripts concurrently to generate load and gather some basic performance testing metrics. http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Re-Usable+Load+Test

Re: [Wtr-general] watir execution from webserver

2007-03-28 Thread Brown, David
I had the same issue where the script would execute but couldn't find any of the other 'required' files in the directory. To solve this problem, I had to add some code to the "runner\app\controllers\runner_controller.rb" specifying the test suite directory that the test should execute in. Now it

[Wtr-general] Excelent debugging tool - Unroller

2007-05-07 Thread Brown, David
All, I stumbled across this handy little debugging tool the other day when I was trying to find a tool that would display/trace the execution of my test script. This tool called "Unroller" will print out each line of code that is executed along with the values of the variable passed into and return

[Wtr-general] Sample Training Presentation and Exercises posted on Wiki

2007-05-09 Thread Brown, David
In case anyone can re-use them, I've posted a basic Watir training presentation and some associated exercises that I've developed and used a few times to train individuals & groups in my company on the basics of Watir. Feel free to re-use, modify and enhance them :). http://wiki.openqa.org/display

Re: [Wtr-general] Running test script once for each datarow in

2007-05-11 Thread Brown, David
Vipul, You can find examples of working with excel here: http://wiki.rubygarden.org/ruby/page/show/ScriptingExcel Or, there's a library with an example watir test script I posted on the watir contributions wiki which hides some of the complexities of working with excel: http://wiki.openqa.org/displ

[Wtr-general] Watir no longer always waits for all frames to load completely (gem 1.5.1.1166)

2007-06-19 Thread Brown, David
I've been using the development gem 1.5.1.1166 which includes the re-written wait logic to test a complex SAP web application. The main content that I am automating is nested 4 frames deep. Up until this past Friday this version of watir seemed to handle waiting for all of the inner frames to loa

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir no longer always waits for all frames to load

2007-06-19 Thread Brown, David
rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brown, David wrote: > I've been using the development gem 1.5.1.1166 which includes the > re-written wait logic to test a complex SAP web application. The main > content that I am automating is nested 4 frames deep. Up until this > past Friday this versio

Re: [Wtr-general] Watir no longer always waits for all frames to load

2007-06-20 Thread Brown, David
Bret, I've filed the issue in Jira as low priority. The ticket# is: WTR-165 Thanks for your help. -David ___ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general

Re: [Wtr-general] Using Excel

2007-06-25 Thread Brown, David
Tiffany, I've generated r-doc documentation for the XLS class and uploaded it to the watir site (http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Excel+interface+class). It includes some short comments on the methods used to write to excel (also listed below). There should be examples of using each of the meth