This document discusses Watir, an open-source tool for automating web application testing in Ruby. It provides an agenda that includes discussing the problem of automated testing of web apps, how Watir solves this problem, and demonstrations of using Watir with different testing styles including validation, xUnit, RSpec, and Cucumber. The document will test a Point of Sale PHP web application using various Watir automated test styles and define the benefits of each approach.

1. Watir– The Beginning1

2. 2 About MyselfAndrii DzyniaSenior Automation QA Engineerandrii.dzynia@gmail.com2

3. Agenda3

4. Problem Automated testing of web applications4

5. How we could solve it?5WatijWin32-WatirWatirWatirWatiNSelenium

6. What is it?Watir – pronounced like “Water”Web application testing in RubyOpen-sourceLovely APIRunning without browserA lot of forks6

7. How it works?7

8. What is main advantage?8

9. Record & Play ?9

10. This is for noobs10

11. What is professional way?11

12. So what we will do today?Test ‘Point of Sale’ PHP web application.Write Watir automated tests in different styles.Define benefits of each style.12

13. Web Application To Test13

14. First stepIRB - Interactive Ruby ShellDrive the browserSome features14

15. Scenario15

16. Nice but not scalable?16

17. TestUnit – xUnittool 17

18. Scenario18

19. What about Business Users?19

20. How BDD fits with Ruby?20

21. Rspec library21

22. Cucumber22

23. What we have seen todayValidation methodxUnit styleBDD: Rspec and Cucumber23

24. Choose exactly what you need24 “Life is a series of choices.”

25. AUTOMATED-TESTING.INFO25