Mentioned in an earlier post, roo is a great gem to use with watir to do excel validations. You can use roo to find values in specific cells or within a range of cells. Naturally, you would want to do your data analysis across a range of cells to avoid unnecessary work and lines of…
Read moreMentioned in an earlier post, roo is a great gem to use with watir to do excel validations. You can use roo to find values in specific cells or within a range of cells. Naturally, you would want to do your data analysis across a range of cells to avoid unnecessary work and lines of…
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WATIR allows you to access elements based on pre-defined attributes. But there are some cases where a simple watir method cannot be used. Cases such as below: Case 1 – > There is an element that cannot be accessed using pre-defined attributes Case 2 -> There is no API for a particular HTML element Case…
Read moreRoo is a gem that lets you access contents of , 1> Excel Spreadsheets(.xls), 2> Open office spread sheets(.ods), 3>Excel’s new format .xlsx and 4>Google spreadsheets. Consider the following spreadsheet: The above spreadsheet can be accessed using the following code:
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require 'rubygems' |
#Require the roo library in the script
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require 'roo' |
# To parse an excel…
Read moreWhen doing automated testing, it’s common to run into a basic authentication window before you can access the application. WATIR can’t handle these authentication windows very well because it’s basically a modal popup with no associated DOM. That’s where AutoIT can be used to handle these authentication windows. You can use AutoIT to send basic…
Read moreIn Part I we moved a dragable element around in the client window. Often the element has a handle that is to be used to move it. Or the handle might be intended for resizing. Of course, we have to find the handle within the element we wish to move or resize. Using the IE…
Read moreIf your test case requires you to validate the text of a modal dialog, you can use the AutoIT function WinGetText.
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Title = "message from webpage" IEText = ai.WinGetText(Title) puts IEText |
However, this method only works for IE modal popups. When using Firefox, the WinGetText function will output a nil. One possible solution around this is to highlight the text, copy it, send it…
Read moreModal dialogs are pop-ups that need attention before the user can go back to their testing window. Modal dialogs are difficult to automate using only Ruby and Watir because you can’t access the html source code of a modal dialog. Since AutoIT does not require any source code to operate, it is a viable tool…
Read moreHere is a method to validate if an Aria element is enabled/disabled using xpath in WATIR. The attributes that Watir provides for identifying the HTML elements on the page such as flash/Aria objects are sometimes not sufficient enough to identify elements on the page. XPath is well established and powerful query language for XML documents….
Read moreDealing with AJAX text boxes using Watir is tricky. We recently encountered 1 which looks like a generic input box but needs to be activated in order to input data. After trying the various common input methods
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browser.text_field( ).set(value ) |
we finally were able to identify the fix as a 2 step process: Step 1: Clicking the…
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