Web Application Testing in
Ruby (WATIR)
Presented By
Unmesh Gundecha
Agenda
• Introduction to WATIR
• Pre-requisites for WATIR
• How WATIR works?
• Demo
• Why use WATIR?
• Limitations
• Other Tools
• More Info
• Q&A
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Introduction to WATIR
• WATIR (Web Application Testing in Ruby)
is an Open Source functional/regression
test automation tool for testing Web
Applications
• WATIR uses the Ruby programming
language to drive the Internet Explorer
web browser using IE’s Component Object
Model (COM) interface to access HTML
DOM
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Introduction to WATIR
• WATIR is not a record and playback tool.
It does not maintains any GUI Map or
Object Map.
• WATIR provides different ways to access
HTML objects
• WATIR development is led by Paul Rogers
and Bret Pettichord.
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WATIR in SDLC
The testing activities carried out by VeriSoft span the entire software development life-cycle.
WATIR
Works
Here
For each type of testing and testing activity, VeriSoft has a documented methodology based on theory and evolved over the
last 6 years and over 100 testing projects.
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Pre-requisites
Text Editor Ruby
(Notepad) Interpreter
(ruby182-14)
WATIR
Test Script
watirDemo.rb
WATIR Controller
(WATIR Tool Kit)
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How WATIR Works?
• WATIR creates a Instance of IE using the
WATIR IE Class. It then uses this instance
to access the HTML objects from the web
pages for verification
require ‘watir’
include Watir
$ie = IE.new
$ie.goto(http://www.google.com)
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How WATIR Works?
Accessing a HTML Element Button
In HTML:
<input type=submit value="Search" name=SearchButton>
In a Browser:
Now WATIR can access this button by
ie.button(:name,‘SearchButton’) or
ie.button(:type,‘submit’) or
ie.button(:index,1)
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What we can do with Button?
• Click It
ie.button(:value , ‘Search').click
• See if it exists
ie.button(:value , ‘Search').exists?
• Is it Enabled
ie.button(:value , ‘Search').enabled?
• Give it focus
ie.button(:value , ‘Search').focus
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Demo using irb (1)
• Type irb in Start->Run and click OK
• Create a instance of IE from WATIR
• Navigate to a web site
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Demo using irb (2)
• To See HTML of a page
• To see HTML objects from the page
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Demo using irb (3)
• To access a text field
– Flash
– Set
– Get Contents
– Verify Contents
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Demo using irb (4)
• To access a button
– Flash
– Click
• To check if pages contains some text
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Demo Application Test Plan
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Tips and Tricks
• Concurrent Execution
WATIR can run multiple instances of a single
test script with Ruby’s multithreading capabilities
• Using Regular Expressions
WATIR supports regular expressions in method
calls. Here is an example using the link method
to click a hyperlink using the url attribute:
ie.link(:url, /shtml/).click
This will click the link that matches shtml.
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Tips and Tricks
• Multiple Windows
WATIR handles multiple browser windows with
the attach method.
• File Upload
WATIR has a mechanism to support file
uploads. Use the file_field method. Run and
view the Ruby source in:"filefield_test.rb" in the
unittests folder for usage.
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Why Use WATIR?
• It’s Free
• It uses real programming language and
not a proprietary vendor script
• It’s Extensible, New Features can be
added easily
• Mailing list provide support
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Limitations
• Does not support ActiveX Plug-In
Applications, Java Plug-In Applications,
Flash Plug-In and other Plug-In
Applications
• Does not support browsers other than
Internet Explorer on Windows Platform
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Other Tools
• There are similar tools available Samie
(http://samie.sourceforge.net/) in Perl and
Pamie (http://pamie.sourceforge.net/) in
Python for Web Application testing using
IE Automation Object Model.
• Selenium with IE, Mozilla, Safari and
support for many languages: .net, ruby,
python, java
(http://selenium.thoughtworks.com/index.h
tml)
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More Info
• The WATIR home page
http://www.watir.com
• You can subscribe to wtr-general
(http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-
general) mailing list for latest information
on WATIR
• Get latest edition of Ruby from
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
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Questions and Answers
Contact Info
Unmesh Gundecha, SQA Analyst
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3rd Floor, Sungrace Building, S.No. 19(6+7)/5, Bavdhan Khurd, Near Chandni Chowk, Pune
411 021 INDIA Tel. 91 20 22953931/32
www.verisoftindia.com
unmesh@verisoftindia.com
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