About this gem:

This gem is developed for novice automation tester’s to write automation scripts fast as it is very easy to use.

Features:-

  1. Freedom to choose the browser. Right now this gem is only tested with IE.

    # ie = set_browser("ie")

  2. Method name’s are simple and easy to remember. For e.g:

    # require 'watir_helper'

# ie1 = set_browser("ie")

# goto_page(ie1, "http://www.google.com/")

# close_browser(ie1)

# ie2 = set_browser("ie")

# goto_page(ie2, "http://rubygems.com/")

# close_browser(ie2)

  3. Data validations like email-id validation, date format(like mmddyyyy or ddmmyyyy) validation etc. are also incorporated.

  4. For Pop-up handling, you have to just use one line named method’s of this gem. It’s that easy.

    # click_ok_js_popup(“File Download”)

    # click_save_saveas_popup(“Save As”, “C://Test_Data”)

  5. You can add new features into this gem.

Prerequisites:

Install Ruby: 

First you need to install Ruby using the one-click installer for Windows from
http://ruby-lang.org .

Install Watir:

Watir is packaged as a gem, a Ruby library that can be installed over the internet.

To install it, type this at command prompt:

gem install watir

Install rake :

gem install rake

Install IE Developer Toolbar from the site :

http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=18359

How To Use:

This only works on Windows. Requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or newer.

Typical Usage :

   # Include the gem 'watir_helper'

      require 'watir_helper'

   # Set browser   
      ie = set_browser("ie")

   # Supply Google url to goto_page

      goto_page(ie, "http://www.google.com/")

   # Display title of the current browser page

      puts get_title(ie)

   # Display url of the current browser page

      puts get_url(ie)

   # Flash the Google logo on the home page   

      flash_image(ie, "id", "logo")

   # Check whether Google logo image exists or not

      puts exists_image?(ie, "id", "logo")

   # Set the search field to Ruby

      set_textfield(ie, "name", "q", "Ruby")

   # Highlight the Google Search button

      flash_button(ie, "value", "Google Search")

   # Click the Google Search button

      click_button(ie, "value", "Google Search")

Contacts:

The mailing list: http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/watir_helper

E-mail :- [email protected]

Contributors:

Ankur Gera