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A question came up on stack overflow about how to route Watir through an authenticating proxy within your script. The problem here is that you cannot auto authenticate to a proxy server using Chrome –proxy-server=my.proxy.com:3128 or using Firefox. Chrome will always prompt you for a user name and password on an authenticating proxy when it starts up [...] In my last post I made a tongue-in-cheek observation that load testing really doesn’t work by today’s perceived standards for web automation and testing. Part of my grievance for that was based on frustration in dealing with different load testing platforms. Not frustration born out of incompetence, more the frustration born out writing tests for increasingly [...] Here’s an idea… Ever been in a LoadRunner contract where you’ve got a ton of scripts to write for business transactions that have many many design steps? Even worse, have you had to write those scripts against a development environment with an unstable code base and shocking performance? Sound familiar? Ever felt the frustration of re-recording [...] By this I mean I wanted to determine how much network and server time was spent processing a request initiated by a Watir script. Server time as defined by time to first buffer and network time as time to last buffer (minus the first). I couldn’t really do this from Ruby itself, so I installed Fiddler. [...] A new version of FireWatir has been released. This includes some fixes related to Firefox 3 but more importantly, it marks the merger of FireWatir and Watir projects, allowing for tighter coupling of methods and functionality between the two, allowing you to write less code =) To use FireWatir, you will have to install a Firefox [...] In an effort to get more actively involved with the open source community, I’ve recently starting working with another colleague on a new site called justaddwatir.com. This is an exciting collaboration of examples for web application testing in ruby (watir – pronounced “water”). Watir is a simple open-source library for automating web browsers. It allows you [...] Recently I attended Railscamp 08 in Sydney Australia for a weekend of code, beer and bzflag. For my ‘project’ I decided on brushing up my my Ruby skills and constructing a simple framework from which I could structure watir test cases. Specifically I wanted to achieve the following: Create some form of script that could ‘learn’ objects [...] By now you’ve probably heard of watir or Web Application Testing In Ruby, a great automation framework which supports Microsoft Internet Explorer, and recently came in at number 3 as a popular oss tool on this blog. I’ve been using this tool mostly from a windows box, and knew of the firefox equivalent, aptly named ‘Firewatir’ [...] Recently I noticed some discussion in the watir user group about trying to capture screenshots when running automated tests. For such a simple requirement, it’s frustrating that solutions available either cost money (such as the purchase of SnagIt) or are a tad complicated in implementation requiring the installation of some out of date gems and dependencies. [...] |
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