You can do what you can. My own experience has been developing a test framework for the Gap for their online divisions - Taza http://github.com/charley/taza which I'd highly recommend. We had rich UI and Ajax calls which Taza handles very well. Take a look at it and best of luck with GMail, blog about solutions as you come across them. As has been mentioned before GMail is a rather challenging goal, so why not start with something simpler - Gap's online checkout is something I'm familiar with and have automated. There are multiple other sites and people using Watir for the exact challenge you mention, including Facebook.
Cheers, Charley Baker Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Sharma Vishav <sharma.vis...@gmail.com>wrote: > My experience is, new generation of Web applications with rich UI > depend on HTML code generated automatically by tools, rather than > semi automated generated code or hand crafted HTML code in past. HTML > code generated by such applications is generally use lots of > Divs,spans and not to watir friendly element Ids. > > I selected Gmail as this seems to be falling in this category and has > fun while learning element to it > > cheers > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The other difference is you won't normally be dealing with an > > application that actively TRIES to be difficult to script against. > > > > Now truthfully I can't say for sure that is the case (having not > > talked with anyone at google who can confirm that suspicion) but sure > > as heck both FEELS like it IS the case, and also makes sense from a > > standpoint that most people who would want to be automating the google > > UI would do so for 'evil' (e.g. sending spam) purposes, and that's > > something google would seek to prevent. > > > > On Aug 11, 1:30 am, Željko Filipin <zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Sharma Vishav <sharma.vis...@gmail.com > > > >> wrote: > >> > >> > My main aim here is to get knowledge on how to effectively use watir > >> > in web application which present you such situations. > >> > >> The main difference in testing Gmail just for fun (by the way, just > today > >> they completely changed it) and testing an application (and get money > for > >> it) is that in the second case you usually have access to developers and > you > >> can ask them how to access and element, or ask them to make a change so > the > >> application is more testable. > >> > >> Željko > > > > -- > > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > > To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe: > > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<watir-general%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe: > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<watir-general%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: watir-general@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
