There is no magic bullet here. Suppressing Web Analytic collection during test execution cycles is not an issue specific to Watir. Any Manual test process or Automated test tool run against a web page that implements Omniture SiteCatalyst, Google Analytics or any other web activity monitoring application runs into this issue.
As an automated test tool simulates a user's manual actions, you need to determine how would you avoid collection if you were manually performing the same actions. Once you have determined that you will have your solution to implement with the automated tool. In general many Web Analytic collection tools rely on JavaScript and cookies. If Analytic collection is the ONLY need for them on you site a simple solution would be to disable them in your Browser's settings before you run you test. That will probably not work for many sites as they are using cookies for other purposes and have heavily invested in the use of JavaScript throughout the site for normal operation of the site. As you are not the first person to have to deal with this situation,I'd expect that the folks who support Omniture have had to deal with this issue before, there may even be a support group you could query. That's were I'd focus my questions. On a major web site I used to test I worked with the Web Analytic's company so that they would know to ignore any traffic that came from a range of I.P. addresses that the QA organization used for their manual or automated testing, be that against a Development, QA or Production site. Joe On Sep 17, 12:14 pm, Chad Larkin <clar...@toolbox.com> wrote: > I would like to run a subset of my automation tools in our production > website, but need to find a way not to be captured in our web > analytics. Does anyone have any experience with avoiding Omniture or > other web analytic tracking? -- 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