I think it's a good idea. I used to use WinRunner TSL (I much prefer using Watir by the way!) and it provided similar functionality. What was different was that there was a global timeout setting that was used, and the timeout value added to the operation would be added on to the global timeout value. This was quite handy when testing requirements such as a "All web pages must be loaded within 5 seconds".
If desired, this functionality could be easily achieved by Watir users with what is being proposed. Cheers, Daniel. On 08/06/06, Jared Quinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm voting to add this...I know I can add it myself, but it seems like a > number of people are having to do this already. > > Jared > > > > > I think the remaining question is whether Watir should do this > automatically. I've actually coded this directly and tested it and it works. > It's only a couple of lines of code. > > The only complication is that if you do this on every call, you need to > make darn sure you put a limit on how long you will poll for the existance > of an object. What happens if the page changes and the second page no longer > has a link called "Second"? Dara's solution would hang indefinitely, which > is a bad thing for a test to do. > > So that means adding a timeout and then providing a means for users to > configure the timeout for their own tests. > > Should we build this into Watir? > > The main drawback is that every time there is a failure to find an object, > Watir will wait the timeout interval, before actually raising the error. So > it could make tests slower, especially when there are lots of errors. On the > other hand, you could just set the timeout to 0, and then it would work the > way it does today. > > Comments? > > Bret > > > ________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > Wtr-general@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > Wtr-general@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > > _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
