Posts Tagged ‘watir’

Quick Tip: make it easier to debug your full-stack acceptance tests

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on March 24th, 2009 under Ruby on Rails and Software Development, Writing Reliable, Bug-Free Code Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  1 Comment

One of the issues when using Selenium or Watir to power your full-stack acceptance testing (apart from the time it takes for the test suite to run), is that stuff happens within your browser, fails and then Cucumber happily moves on to the next test before you get a chance to look at what went [...]

Cucumber and WATIR: kick-starting your testing

Posted by Rahoul Baruah on January 16th, 2009 under Designing Great Software, Ruby on Rails and Software Development, Writing Reliable, Bug-Free Code Tags: , ,  •  Comments Off

I think Cucumber is fast becoming indispensable for my testing. The point of it is that you can write documentation that your client understands and then prove that the application does what it says. When coupled with WATIR you can show that it really works in an actual browser – you can even [...]