It's been a dream of mine for a while to set up a comprehensive testing solution for the product I work on at work. After yesterday, I feel like I may be on track for that dream.
Been playing with Watir (Web Application Testing in Ruby) for a while now but hit bumps repeatedly with frames and getting access to page content. You see, Watir facilitates writing scripts which can use a browser to access web page and do stuff with it. Pretty slick - when it works. But if you can't access certain content then you're SOL.
When I picked this up again, I saw there was Watir-WebDriver out there. It basically facilitates using selenium like code in testing. It seems like it has better support for accessing objects in web pages which is just what I needed.
Anywho, I picked it up and was able to clear a couple of hurdles fairly quickly which ultimately is how you judge any software you're working with. Pretty happy with the results. I want to bang out a handful of more tests and then possibly explore adding page objects to get things a little more abstracted and, hopefully, simplified.
Should be fun.
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