Justin, Thanks for the reply. Our application will be a standalone one that, built with node-webkit (Chromium and node.js based), can be launched from user's desktop. It's *NOT* launched in a browser, but behaves like one, with a console that can be used to inspect the HTML elements liek you would with a Chrome browser. See attached screenshot. Since it is different than a real browser, so I can't use code like:
browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome to identify it and subsequent elements/controls like frames, links, buttons, etc. Could you give me some more details on how you identify/automate the controls within the app (before you switching back to regular browser)? Thanks again, Xuemin On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:09:17 AM UTC-4, Justin Hull wrote: > > We're using watir web-driver to automate the testing of a Chrome App that > we're developing. We explored the option of launching the browser using a > command line switch to load the app as an extension and were successful in > doing so. We were able to automate the controls within the app and could > see everything in the DOM just as you would if it was a normal web page. > Ultimately we decided on launching the Chrome app in a regular browser > window as it proved to be a less cumbersome option and our developers felt > comfortable that the application we were testing in the browser was not all > that much different from the actual product we are planning on shipping. > Our application is a node/angular-based javascript application. How do > you actually launch the application? Does it launch in a browser? For our > test purposes, our application can actually be built and hosted either on > your local machine or hosted on a webserver - either way you launch it by > pointing the browser to the URL and at that point, it's just regular or web > testing. > > Hope this helps. > > On Sunday, October 19, 2014 10:44:38 PM UTC-4, Xuemin Yin wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've been using Watir to automate Chrome browser based UI testing >> (loading web pages, performing actions on HTML elements etc) and it's been >> a great success. >> >> We are starting some new projects that use node-webkit ( >> https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit), a Chromium and node.js based >> app runtime. I haven't figured out how to use Waitr to automate it. >> >> Does anyone know how to do it? If not, is there any other tool for this >> purpose? >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
