Take my replies with a grain of salt. Nowadays I just keep my toe in Watir (as it were) ;-) and am only beginning to learn Selenium RC.
On 3/8/07, quick reply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Recently came accross this tool.It seems very useful for testing web based application.Can anybody give me a pointer for comparing this tool with other opensouce tool like Samie,Pamie,
I haven't played with Samie or Pamie, but my impression is that neither has as active a user base as Watir. Selenium etc... Selenium is a very different way to do something similar to what Watir does. Watir drives IE's COM interface, where Selenium drives most JS enabled browsers, using JS. Selenium thus has the advantage of running on Firefox (and a number of other browsers), while Watir has the advantage of not needing to install anything on the box that serves the application under test...and from what I hear a more powerful and intuitive set of libraries. Another advantage of Selenium RC is that it has APIs for many languages, where Watir uses ruby only. (Now, for me ruby is the language I want to write tests in anyway, but Selenium gives non-me people more options). I should note that FireWatir is a project that is porting Watir to FF. I hear that it's doing pretty well nowadays but I haven't ever used it myself. My general recommendation would be: If IE-only work for you, and you want to (or don't mind) coding in Ruby, choose Watir. If you want to add FF to your list, I would try out both Watir + FireWatir and Selenium RC. If FireWatir doesn't turn out to be sufficient FF support for you, or you want to code in a language Selenium RC supports, that's a great way to go too. My two cents, Jeff Fry http://testingjeff.wordpress.com
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