One solution would be to use the alternative method described at http://watirwebdriver.com/javascript-dialogs/
Jarmo Pertman ----- IT does really matter - http://itreallymatters.net On Friday, September 21, 2012 11:28:30 AM UTC+3, Željko Filipin wrote: > > I would suggest that you send this to wtr-dev...@rubyforge.org<javascript:> > > Željko > -- > filipin.eu > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Thien-An Mac <thien...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I have started to point my cucumber/watir-webdriver test suites on our >> remote grid (hosted on another server, in a different physical location) >> and the performance is quite dreadful compared to a local grid (ie i'm >> executing my cucumber scripts on the same machine as the grid). The >> performance went from 8 minutes to over 40 minutes (both runs our script in >> parallel)! I did a bit of digging and it seems that the reason why it's so >> slow is that there is a significant delay when i'm filling out my webforms. >> Oddly enough, when i run the same scenario, but using webdriver, the >> performance went decrease by alot. >> >> Here are the two sample scripts I'm using to compare (both doing a simple >> google search) with a rather "complex" timing system >> >> watir: >> >> require 'rubygems' >> require 'watir-webdriver' >> browser = Watir::Browser.new(:remote, :url => remote_grid_url) >> browser.goto "www.google.com" >> now = Time.now.to_f >> browser.text_field(:name => "q").set "We the People" >> endd = Time.now.to_f >> browser.button(:name => "btnG").click >> >> delta = endd - now >> browser.close >> >> puts "Took : " + delta.to_s >> >> watir: >> require 'rubygems' >> require 'selenium-webdriver' >> browser = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :url => remote_grid_url) >> browser.get "http://www.google.com"; >> now = Time.now.to_f >> browser.find_element(:name => "q").send_keys "We the People" >> endd = Time.now.to_f >> browser.find_element(:name => "btnG").click >> delta = endd - now >> puts "Took : " + delta.to_s >> >> As you can see both scripts capture the time it takes to find the element >> and populate it. I ran both scripts seperately, and on average, the >> webdriver takes 1 second to find and populate, and watir takes 3 seconds, >> which is 3x more! >> >> Is there a special setting i need on the grid to make it faster or do i >> need to optimize my locators (ie find the div, then the child element)? >> >> >> -- >> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> >> watir-...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> watir-genera...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> > > -- 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
