It's substantially slower. A script that takes 3.5 minutes with watir-classic with the speed set to :fast takes about 15-20 minutes to run with the 32 bit webdriver. The main slowness comes from the searching of the elements it seems. And the 64 bit webdriver takes about 10 seconds just to type one character in a text field.
I'll see about getting some functioning code. Unfortunately, the page is generated by telerik and .net, so there are bits and pieces all over the place. There is also no error that is thrown, it just simply closes the server. I'm going to be writing a piece today that only tests that page and nothing else. On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 5:03:15 PM UTC-4, Titus Fortner wrote: > > How much slower? WebDriver relies on Javascript, so it is going to be > slower to a certain extent, but it should be much more reliable and forward > compatible. > > Do you have a site / code you can share? > If a button is supposed to navigate to another page and closes the browser > instead, we should investigate the bug. What error do you get? > > Thanks, > Titus > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Mike Malandra <michael....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I just ran it with webdriver for ie (which is still slow for me, so if >> there is a way to increase the speed, i'm all ears!), and it actually >> closes the browser/server when the button is clicked. >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 2:45:16 PM UTC-4, Mike Malandra wrote: >>> >>> Do you mean using watir-webdriver instead of watir-classic? We have not >>> tried that, mainly due to how slow watir-webdriver was for IE the last time >>> I used it (About 7 months ago). >>> >>> On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 11:38:08 AM UTC-4, Titus Fortner wrote: >>>> >>>> Have you tried setting the driver to use webdriver? The code shouldn't >>>> need to change much if at all, and the IE Driver is being actively updated. >>>> On Sep 21, 2015 9:56 AM, "Mike Malandra" <michael....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Not sure if this helps or matters, but the UI that is breaking is >>>>> using Telerik. >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:56:57 AM UTC-4, Mike Malandra wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I am using Ruby 2.0.0 with Watir-Classic 4.2.0 on Windows 7 64 bit >>>>>> with IE11. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a script that works entirely fine when working with IE8. A >>>>>> button is clicked, the next page loads, and the expected functionality >>>>>> continues until the end of the script. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, I'm running into an issue when running the same script on a >>>>>> machine with IE11 running with the site in compatibility mode. >>>>>> >>>>>> When I click the same button, the entire WATIR process seems to lock >>>>>> up. I eventually get a timeout and the script fails. Once the script >>>>>> fails, I attempt to maximize the window and take a screenshot. This can >>>>>> take anywhere from 1 minute to 10 minutes after the process locks up >>>>>> (which >>>>>> is not normal, it usually only take a moment to take a screenshot). >>>>>> While >>>>>> this is occurring, I also can not attach to the browser through an IRB >>>>>> session. The same steps can still be performed manually without issue - >>>>>> I >>>>>> can click the button just fine and the next page loads, so this is an >>>>>> automation only issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> Another weird part is this is NOT 100% of the time, and occurs on my >>>>>> machine and our webapps with about 80% repeatability. Sometimes the >>>>>> script >>>>>> continues normally, which leads me to believe this is some sort of race >>>>>> condition with compat mode. Even weirder is the fact that my colleague, >>>>>> who >>>>>> has the same system setup as mine, does not run into this issue - though >>>>>> his machine does tend to run slower than mine. >>>>>> >>>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for working around this issue? We >>>>>> need to upgrade to IE11 for other scripts, but obviously cannot until we >>>>>> resolve this issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. 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