Wyatt Lyon Preul

While working with WATIR I encountered a small bug that I would like to post the solution to here. It involves setting a file path in a fileField, which does not get set. I have only found this error in 1.5.1 and have not checked if it exists in previous versions. From what I have found, this development...

Did you know that you are not limited by :id, :name, and :text in order to locate an element using Watir. Instead of these standard elements you are also capable of finding an element using the CSS class that the element references. For example, if you have a div that has a stylesheet class defined as...

There are times that you will need to run JavaScript from within a WATIR test. Usually the script that you will need to run will be contained inside a JavaScript function on the page. However, there are also instances whenever you simply need to run your own custom JavaScript specific to your test from...

I am watching the Dreams DVD from Fleetwood Mac and writing the last chapter for Professional Community Server when it hit me, you can combine Watir and RSpec. RSpec is a "framework for practicing Behavior Driven Development in Ruby (BDD)." Meanwhile, Watir is a framework for testing the presentation...

In Watir you can use the set option to populate an input element, such as a text_field. However, doing this will actually cause Watir to type out each character that you are inputting unless you run the script with a -f switch. Why not trade all of this in and set the text_fields value with the text...