March releases round-up

Posted on Apr 02 By mark.

A busy March sees the following releases.

TestWise 1.2.3

TestWise 1.2.x introduced some very useful features, such as

Test Suite
Run selected test scripts

I will cover them in detail in coming blog posts.

And the new installer now support uninstalling previous version if any.

PRoR 186-v17

Major changes: upgrade to latest Rails 2.3.2.

rWebUnit 1.2.1

rWebUnit 1.2 sees major documentation updates and new unit tests, and several API enhancements, eg.


  try(15) { click_button("Pay") } # wait 'Pay' button for upto 15 seconds

And the API (RDoc) is now available online

Set up continuous build server to include acceptance tests using Watir

Posted on Mar 22 By mark.

Acceptance tests integrated into the continuous build server provides team members constant feedback, its benefits is quite obvious. Here I show you how to include web acceptance tests (using Watir) in CruiseControl server for a typical Java/J2EE project.

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Using TestWise for existing Watir scripts

Posted on Mar 15 By mark.

TestWise IDE v1.2 adds better support for running Watir scripts directly.

The demo project (project file c:\TestWise\samples\demo\demo.tpr) now includes one test case (TestWise_ajax_xxx) implemented in four different falvours:

rWebUnit
rWebUnit in RSpec
Watir script
Watir in RSpec

, which all can be executed in TestWise IDE.

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Easy Setup Watir with PRoR on Windows

Posted on Feb 27 By mark.

It is delightful to see Watir gaining popular, attracting more attention outside Ruby world. From many of those testers/developers, tasks such as "downloading Ruby one click installer", "gem install", and "proxy setting behind firewall" might just be too much. One simple solution is using PRoR.

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