Comments on: Another Look at WatiN

By: Richard Lawrence

Richard Lawrence — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:54:12 +0000

@SK – As a mentioned to previous commenters, the watin-users mailing list is going to be the best place to get answers about WatiN.

By: SK Srivastava

SK Srivastava — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:16:48 +0000

Hi Guys,

I am a novice to WatiN, I have a doubt that do we need to have apache services on our machine to get the code compiled from WatiN Test Recorder.

Thanks in Advance~

By: Richard Lawrence

Richard Lawrence — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:41:40 +0000

@Wallace - The watin-users mailing list is the best place to get answers about WatiN.

By: Wallace

Wallace — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:15:27 +0000

I am trying to create an automated test which selects a local file from a Windows Open Common Dialog. Can’t find a way to enter the path in the File name drop down though.

Can I use WatIn to identify the Open dialog, enter the string for the path in File name: and click Open?

Thanks

By: Richard Lawrence

Richard Lawrence — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:33:28 +0000

@Karandeep – The best place to get WatiN questions answered is the watin-users mailing list. You can search the archives and join the list here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/watin-users. Good luck!

By: Karandeep

Karandeep — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:27:40 +0000

Hello Richard
I am using WatIn for automation , but I am facing a problem that when an anchor comes on page .
How to identity anchor on page to click ?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:19:13 +0000

@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

Jeroen van Menen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:10:39 +0000

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

Richard — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:13:49 +0000

@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

Alex — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:31:10 +0000

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.