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== Introduction==
== Introduction==
Watir('''W'''eb '''A'''pplication '''T'''est '''i'''n '''R'''uby), pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers. It drives [[Internet Explorer]], [[Mozilla Firefox|Firefox]], [[Google Chrome|Chrome]], [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] and [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], and is available as a [[RubyGems]] gem.
Watir('''W'''eb '''A'''pplication '''T'''est '''i'''n '''R'''uby), pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers. It drives [[Internet Explorer]], [[Mozilla Firefox|Firefox]], [[Google Chrome|Chrome]], [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] and [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], and is available as a [[RubyGems]] gem.
Watir project consists of several smaller projects. The most important ones are watir-classic, watir-webdriver and watirspec.


== Overview ==
== Overview ==

Revision as of 01:59, 14 September 2014

Watir


Introduction

Watir(Web Application Test in Ruby), pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers. It drives Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari, and is available as a RubyGems gem.

Watir project consists of several smaller projects. The most important ones are watir-classic, watir-webdriver and watirspec.

Overview

Web Application Testing

Why Ruby

Installation

Make It Run

All examples are designed to work on the live Watir demo form: http://bit.ly/watir-example.

Run in .rb

You can require Ruby Watir gem first via the -rubygems command line option or by using the RUBYOPT environment variable. You can also require it manually in your script: require 'rubygems'

Including Watir gem to drive Internet Explorer on Windows require 'watir'

Including Watir-WebDriver gem to drive Firefox/Chrome on Windows/Mac/Linux require 'watir-webdriver'

Starting a new browser & and going to our site browser = Watir::Browser.new browser.goto 'http://bit.ly/watir-example'

Setting a text field

browser.text_field(:name => 'entry.0.single').set 'Watir'

Setting a multi-line text box browser.text_field(:name => 'entry.1.single').set "I come here from Australia. \n The weather is great here."

Setting and clearing a radio button browser.radio(:value => 'Watir').set browser.radio(:value => 'Watir').clear

Setting and clearing check boxes browser.checkbox(:value => 'Ruby').set browser.checkbox(:value => 'Python').set browser.checkbox(:value => 'Python').clear

Clicking a button browser.button(:name => 'logon').click

Clearing, getting and selecting selection list values browser.select_list(:name => 'entry.6.single').clear puts browser.select_list(:name => 'entry.6.single').options browser.select_list(:name => 'entry.6.single').select 'Chrome'

Clicking a button browser.button(:name => 'submit').click

Checking for text in a page puts browser.text.include? 'Your response has been recorded.'

Checking the title of a page puts browser.title == 'Thanks!'

Run in other framworks

Comparison with Other Tools

Reference