Cheers Dave. @Zelijko: cannot use Roo as I am using Jruby.
Cheers, Kay On Dec 6, 2:32 pm, Dave McNulla <mcnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kay, > > I would recommend against validating data unless it's absolutely > necessary. You should be able to submit the data that will support the > test you are running then you run the test, then you clean up the > data. The first and last steps may be done through sql commands, API > calls, or web services calls. What does this give you? Knowledge that > failures are in the software and not in the a change to the "sample > data". You also don't have to worry about "burned data", which could > be quite the problem if you are working in getting your tests right to > begin with. > > Of course that depends on cooperation and trust in the test teams. > > Good luck, > > Dave > > On Dec 6, 6:19 am, Kay <karthigaya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Zelijko, will look at it. > > > Cheers, > > Kay > > > On Dec 6, 9:34 am, Željko Filipin <zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> > > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Kay <karthigaya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The test data is provided by a seperate data > > > > team to us in the form of excel spreadsheet > > > > Watir "just" drives browser(s). It does not know anything about Excel. > > > There > > > are other tools that know about it, for example roo[1]. > > > > Watir is "just" a Ruby library (Ruby is programming language). Google for > > > "excel ruby" (without quotes) and you will probably find something. > > > > [1]http://roo.rubyforge.org/ > > > > Željko > > > -- > > > watir.com - community manager > > > watirpodcast.com - host > > > testingpodcast.com - audio podcasts on software testing. all of them -- 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.com
