Comments on: Another Look at WatiN http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/01/24/another-look-at-watin/ On making software teams happier and more productive Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Richard http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/01/24/another-look-at-watin/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Richard Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:19:13 +0000 http://www.richardlawrence.info/?p=115#comment-16 @Jeroen - Thanks for the comments (and for creating a great tool!). I'm working on the first in a series of WatiN patterns posts right now. Once there are a few of those up, I'd appreciate a link from the WatiN website. Hope they'll be a good resource for WatiN users. @Jeroen – Thanks for the comments (and for creating a great tool!). I’m working on the first in a series of WatiN patterns posts right now. Once there are a few of those up, I’d appreciate a link from the WatiN website. Hope they’ll be a good resource for WatiN users.

]]> By: Jeroen van Menen http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/01/24/another-look-at-watin/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jeroen van Menen Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:10:39 +0000 http://www.richardlawrence.info/?p=115#comment-13 Hi Richard, Pleased to read your new post on WatiN :-) If you happen to write "documentation" I'm more than willing to add it to the WatiN website (as well). Regards, Jeroen van Menen Lead developer WatiN Hi Richard,

Pleased to read your new post on WatiN :-)

If you happen to write “documentation” I’m more than willing to add it to the WatiN website (as well).

Regards,
Jeroen van Menen
Lead developer WatiN

]]> By: Richard http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/01/24/another-look-at-watin/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Richard Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:13:49 +0000 http://www.richardlawrence.info/?p=115#comment-15 @Alex - I think that gets back to the importance of good patterns. With a powerful tool like WatiN, it's easy to quickly build a suite of fragile, unmaintainable tests. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, the documentation around WatiN that would keep you from going in that direction is limited. I need to write more about this... @Alex – I think that gets back to the importance of good patterns. With a powerful tool like WatiN, it’s easy to quickly build a suite of fragile, unmaintainable tests. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, the documentation around WatiN that would keep you from going in that direction is limited. I need to write more about this…

]]> By: Alex http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/01/24/another-look-at-watin/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Alex Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:31:10 +0000 http://www.richardlawrence.info/?p=115#comment-14 We're using WatiN as much as possible, but have problems getting consistent behavior from environment to environment and have yet to effectively automate any of those tests. I introduced WatiN to the team and one of the developers went crazy with base classes and working the timeout, event pausing, and automated local data reset issues. When it works it's valuable, but it's hard keeping up with unit tests when they're not automated. I think we also need to ease off the test count given the time it takes to run these tests, our heaviest data page fixture can take ~20 minutes to run. We’re using WatiN as much as possible, but have problems getting consistent behavior from environment to environment and have yet to effectively automate any of those tests. I introduced WatiN to the team and one of the developers went crazy with base classes and working the timeout, event pausing, and automated local data reset issues. When it works it’s valuable, but it’s hard keeping up with unit tests when they’re not automated. I think we also need to ease off the test count given the time it takes to run these tests, our heaviest data page fixture can take ~20 minutes to run.

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