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Web Application Testing Using Watir

Web Application Testing using Watir Testing is an integral part of any Agile team. It forms an important feedback loop . The faster and reliable the feedback, the better the product. This presentation gives the audience a taste of Watir (Web application testing in Ruby), a lightweight Open Source library written in Ruby for driving browsers to test web applications of any kind. Hands on in Watir is also in Session.

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Web Application Testing Using Watir

Web Application Testing using Watir Testing is an integral part of any Agile team. It forms an important feedback loop . The faster and reliable the feedback, the better the product. This presentation gives the audience a taste of Watir (Web application testing in Ruby), a lightweight Open Source library written in Ruby for driving browsers to test web applications of any kind. Hands on in Watir is also in Session.

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WATIR

Automated testing that doesn’t


hurt
Who am I
• Am a Watir contributor.
• Have been using Watir since 2005.
• Used it in projects, built frameworks around it as well
extended it.
• Contributions
– Ported FireWatir to JRuby.
– Wrote the Flash Extension for Watir
– Project owner for ChromeWatir.
– Project owner for Schnell.
– Active member of Watir dev community and mailing
list.
What is Watir
• A browser driver. Can be used for testing web based
applications.
• Started as a library to teach testers to write ruby code.
• Grew to be an IE implementation by Bret Pettichord.
• Now supports IE, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and
Opera. As well headless browser support using HtmlUnit
through Celerity and Schnell.
• Current release is 1.6.2. Can be found in
http://wtr.rubyforge.org
Watir is cool because
Watir is cool because
• It is written in Ruby and open source.
• It has standardized interface across browsers.
• The API and implementation is clean, intuitive and
simple.
• Supports major browsers. And fast headless browser
support through Celerity and Schnell. 
• Good locator support
• Easily extensible.
• Active community (Watir wiki, mailing list and irc).
Agile principles like refactoring, continuous integration
and short releases strictly followed.
• Has corporate support (www.watircraft.com) .
Watir can be better because
• Firefox implementation using JSSH is really crummy.
Discussions are going on to move to XPCOM
• The standardization across implementations is still
going on. FireWatir work is almost complete. The
details about the other implementations is yet to be
known.
• SafariWatir and ChromeWatir are still not inside Watir
mainline code base.
• OperaWatir is still not open sourced.
Frameworks using Watir
• Frameworks built using Watir as core
– Taza – Now called WatirCraft
– Rasta - a FIT influenced keyword driven framework
– Watirloo - Semantic Page Objects Modelling
– Excel and Wiki driven frameworks
– More frameworks are out there
• If you have built any cool frameworks or DSLs like
Domain Driven or Fluent Interface, let me know. We
can try it with Watir
• For more info on frameworks, please see Watir wiki.
Watir Architecture

IE COM FF JSSH Apple Events V8 Debugger Dragonfly

WATIR API

Component 1 Component 2 Component 3 Component 4

Test Script Your


awesome
framework
References
• Watir website http://wtr.rubyforge.org

• Watir Wiki
http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Project+Home

• ChromeWatir website
http://code.google.com/p/chrome-watir

• My blog http://developer-in-test.blogspot.com
Finally…

Thank you for your patience


Lets see some code…

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