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    Watir is an open-source family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. It consists of several projects including Watir-classic which directly drives browsers through the COM protocol, Watir-webdriver which is based on Selenium, and Watirspec which is an executable specification of the Watir API. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers to help test and automate web applications.

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    Watir

    Watir (Web Application Testing in Ruby, pronounced water), is


    an open-source family of Ruby libraries for automating web
    Watir
    browsers.[1][2][3][4] It drives Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome,
    Opera and Safari, and is available as a RubyGems gem.[4][5]
    Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul
    Rogers.

    Functionality
    Watir project consists of several smaller projects. The most
    important ones are watir-classic, watir-webdriver and watirspec.
    Developer(s) Bret Pettichord,
    Charley Baker,
    Watir-classic Angrez Singh,
    Jari Bakken,
    Watir-classic makes use of the fact that Ruby has built in Object Jarmo Pertman,
    Linking and Embedding (OLE) capabilities. As such it is Hugh McGowan,
    possible to drive Internet Explorer programmatically.[6] Watir- Andreas Tolf
    classic operates differently than HTTP based test tools, which Tolfsen, Paul
    operate by simulating a browser. Instead Watir-classic directly Rogers, Dave
    drives the browser through the OLE protocol, which is
    Hoover, Sai
    implemented over the Component Object Model (COM)
    Venkatakrishnan,
    architecture.
    Tom Copeland,
    The COM permits interprocess communication (such as between Alex Rodionov,
    Ruby and Internet Explorer) and dynamic object creation and Titus Fortner
    manipulation (which is what the Ruby program does to the Stable release 6.17 / August 28,
    Internet Explorer). Microsoft calls this OLE automation, and
    2020
    calls the manipulating program an automation controller.
    Technically, the Internet Explorer process is the server and serves Written in Ruby
    the automation objects, exposing their methods; while the Ruby Operating system Cross-platform
    program then becomes the client which manipulates the
    Type Software testing
    automation objects.
    framework for
    web applications
    Watir-webdriver License MIT license

    Watir-webdriver is a modern version of the Watir API based on Website watir.com (http://
    Selenium. Selenium 2.0 (selenium-webdriver) aims to be the watir.com/)
    reference implementation of the WebDriver specification. In
    Ruby, Jari Bakken has implemented the Watir API as a wrapper around the Selenium 2.0 API. Not only is
    Watir-webdriver derived from Selenium 2.0, it is also built from the HTML specification, so Watir-
    webdriver should always be compatible with existing W3C specifications.

    Watirspec

    Watirspec is executable specification of the Watir API, like RubySpec is for Ruby.

    See also
    Free and open-
    source software
    portal

    Acceptance testing
    Regression testing
    List of web testing tools
    Test automation

    References
    1. "Watir home page" (http://watir.com/). Watir web site. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
    2. "A new member in the Watir-family" (http://www.opera.com/developer/tools/operawatir/).
    Opera Software web site. Opera Software. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
    3. "Watir to WebDriver: Unit Test Frameworks" (https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engi
    neering/watir-to-webdriver-unit-test-frameworks/10150314152278920). Facebook
    Engineering's Notes. Facebook. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
    4. Crispin, Gregory (2008). Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (http
    s://books.google.com/books?id=68_lhPvoKS8C). Addison-Wesley. p. 172.
    ISBN 9780321534460.
    5. Marick, Brian (2007). Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You (https://bo
    oks.google.com/books?id=1vKBQgAACAAJ). Pragmatic Bookshelf. p. 2.
    ISBN 9780977616619.
    6. "Creating automated test scripts with Ruby and WATIR" (http://www.thoughtworks.com/articl
    es/automated-testing-using-ruby-and-watir). ThoughtWorks web site. ThoughtWorks.
    Retrieved 11 October 2012.

    External links
    Watir home page (https://watir.github.io)
    Watir source code (https://github.com/watir/)
    The Watir Podcast (https://soundcloud.com/the-watir-podcast)
    Cucumber & Cheese (https://leanpub.com/cucumber_and_cheese) A Testers Workshop
    book by Jeff Morgan

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Watir&oldid=1150931841"

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