http://badgerfiles.com/snips/ 2008-11-18T18:45:29-08:00 http://badgerfiles.com/snips/ http://badgerfiles.com/snips/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-09-24T17:32:03-08:00 Mike Badger http://badgerfiles.com/snips/doku.php?id=home&rev=1222302723 Write it. Document it. Remember it forever. Watir and Ruby: Collection of information about using Watir to automate web application testing. Scratch: Book outline. text/html 2008-06-20T21:30:34-08:00 Mike Badger http://badgerfiles.com/snips/doku.php?id=ruby:convert_output_to_html&rev=1214022634 Use the RedCloth module to turn textile markup into HTML. Textile is a simple markup language that can be used to quickly turn plain text files into HTML. See <http://hobix.com/textile/> for a quick reference guide. More information on RedCloth can be found at <http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/>. text/html 2008-03-28T05:58:38-08:00 Mike Badger http://badgerfiles.com/snips/doku.php?id=ruby:intro_to_watir&rev=1206709118 Web application testing in ruby (Watir) is a open-source, automated testing framework based on Ruby. Watir provides a library that helps testers control Microsoft Internet Explorer to perform automated test scenarios. This brief tutorial assumes you: text/html 2008-03-27T12:25:39-08:00 Mike Badger http://badgerfiles.com/snips/doku.php?id=ruby:watir_and_ruby&rev=1206645939 Intro to Watir: A quick start guide to Watir. Common Code Handle Popups: Popups are evil, yet developers insist on using them. Here are some examples to help you process them. Log Results: If you like to puts your results, try ruby's Logger instead. text/html 2008-03-27T12:21:09-08:00 Mike Badger http://badgerfiles.com/snips/doku.php?id=ruby:dbi_connection&rev=1206645669 Most documentation that instructs you how to connect to MSSQL server using ODBC fail to instruct how to set up the data source name (DSN). The DSN is an arbitrary value that gets defined via the Windows Administrative Tools Control Panel. Run the Data Sources utility to add a user DSN. The wizard is fairly self explanatory. text/html 2008-03-25T12:53:58-08:00 Mike Badger http://badgerfiles.com/snips/doku.php?id=ruby:handle_popups&rev=1206474838 In my testing, I encounter popups for File Download, confirmations, and warnings on page load. Variations of these scripts can be found in the Watir Popup FAQ and the Watir mailing lists. Consult the FAQ at <http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/JavaScript+Pop+Ups> for more scenarios. text/html 2008-03-25T12:47:19-08:00 Mike Badger http://badgerfiles.com/snips/doku.php?id=ruby:log_results&rev=1206474439 Ruby includes a flexible Logger class to help us redirect test results to the STDOUT or to file. It also lets us assign a severity for each log message, and best of all, we decide what to log. To test this code and appreciate the logging levels, run the script once for each severity by changing the logger.level = Logger::INFO line.