Watir

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 Your awesome framework Test Script Component 1 WATIR API FF JSSH Apple Events V8 Debugger Dragonfly Component 2 Component 3 Component 4

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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by Sai Venkat on Feb 17, 2009

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