Cross Browser Automation Testing Using Watir
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The document provides an overview of cross-browser automation testing using Watir, an open-source Ruby library that facilitates testing web applications across different browsers. It outlines the prerequisites for setting up an automation environment, including the installation of Ruby, Watir, and RubyMine IDE, along with instructions for each installation step. Additionally, it emphasizes the advantages of using Watir, such as support for multiple browsers, headless execution, and compatibility with various web technologies.
Cross Browser Automation Testing Using Watir
- 1. CROSS BROWSER TESTING CLOUD
- 3. What Is Browser Automation? Browsers have become indispensable to our daily basis productivity. We explore, learn, shop, invest and do a lot more with browsers. There are times when we feel the need for browsers to automate our repetitive tasks. Imagine how cool that would be? Is it possible? Yes
- 4. Now, there are thousands of browsers available on the internet and your website may render in a unique manner on every browser or browser version. It could be very complex to test your website across every single one of them. Cross browser automation testing is to verify your application renders seamlessly across different browsers and its combination version. What Is Cross Browser Automation Testing?
- 5. Watir is an open source Ruby Libraries which helps to achieve cross browser automation testing. Watir supports Ruby which is object oriented language and typically it’s simpler and faster than other languages. The good thing about Watir is, it supports any web application irrespective of the technology used to develop that application. What Is Watir?
- 6. Why Watir? ● It’s a free open source tool belonging to a family of Ruby. ● It supports headless browser execution. ● It supports page object design pattern. ● It supports Cucumber Integration. ● Tests can be maintained simple and flexible. ● It supports your web app no matter what technology used to develop your app. ● It supports multiple browsers on different platforms. ● It is lightweight and easy to use. ● It supports execution in Cloud through cloud based cross browser automation testing tools like LambdaTest.
- 7. Getting Started With Cross Browser Automation Testing Using Watir Here are the prerequisite required for performing cross browser automation testing using Watir on Windows: ● RubyInstaller ● Watir ● RubyMine IDE The RubyInstaller is must because Watir supports Ruby code, so this installation is very important before we proceed with Automation.
- 8. Step1: Installation of Ruby: Navigate to Official Ruby Installer page here. Click on Latest version With DEVKIT to download. Select your OS architecture type, for e.g., I select (X64) 64 bit operating system Setting Up Automation Environment
- 9. The setup window popups to accept license agreement, you need to accept this and move next
- 10. I would recommend selecting all checkboxes and clicking install button to proceed further
- 11. After installation is complete, the following window will popup to install updated component. This is optional either you can leave it by closing the window or hit “Enter” button to update all components.
- 12. Open command prompt in windows and enter the following command: ● ruby -version The installation version of Ruby version is displayed in the command prompt, which indicates Ruby installer is success. To verify once again the installation is success and Ruby programs works fine. Enter the following commands: ● irb irb or IRB stands for Interactive Ruby Shell which is a REPL(read-eval print loop) for programming in the object-oriented scripting language Ruby. I will write a simple code that will put “lambdatest.com” to print it.
- 13. Step2: Installation of Watir: Installation of Watir is very simple. As I mentioned in the above section to verify Watir, you must first installed Ruby. To install, supply the below gem command: ● gem install water gem indicates RubyGems that is a package manager for the Ruby programming which provides a standard format of disturbing Ruby libraries.
- 14. Step 3: Installation of RubyMine IDE: RubyMine is an IDE(Integrated Development Environment) that helps you to write, debug and testing code for your application. Ruby also support multiple OS like Windows, MacOS and Linux etc. Note: RubyMine comes up with Free 30- day Trial license. To download the RubyMine, click here Click on the following button, which will download in your machine. Right click on installer and run as Administrator, which pop ups the following windows. Click next and continue till the installation is complete and launch RubyMine
- 15. Right click on installer and run as Administrator, which pop ups the following windows. Click next and continue till the installation is complete and launch RubyMine
- 16. Keep default with existing plugins and click Next until you see the below window. Click “Create New Project”
- 17. Enter project name and select “Ruby SDK” which will be available if you install Ruby Installer.
- 18. Right click on created project and create a new directory called “testsuites” Create a subdirectory called “resources” under testsuites and drop “chromedriver.exe” To run browser based automation, chromedriver is required which is a separate executable that WebDriver uses to control chrome. Similarly we have different driver for each browser for eg., geckodriver for Mozila firefox, edge driver for Microsoft Edge browsers etc., To download chromedriver, please visit here.
- 19. Writing Code for Sample Test To write code in RubyMine is very simple. Right click on testsuites and select “TestUnit Test Template”