0 How to add Watir-Webdriver support in your scripts

First of all you need to install Watir-Webdriver gem on your machine. It’s pretty simple. Installing watir-webdriver  gem Open command prompt. Type “gem install watir-webdriver” You should see a confirmation message that it is installed.  Note: If you don’t have selenium-webdriver gem already installed, let me tell you, water-webdriver has selenium-webdriver as a dependent gem.  All the dependent gems for water-webdriver gem would also get installed automatically when you install watir-webdriver.  Remember? In the tutorial Selenium History, we have seen that water-webdriver implements selenium-webdriver. This is...

0 Required installation and setup on your computer

Required Softwares to run Ruby scripts (for selenium automation) on windows7 Ruby 1.9.3 Installation Ruby Devkit Installation Installing AutoIt and registering AutoIt DLLs Aptana Studio 1.      Ruby 1.9.3 Installation For writing scripts in ruby you have to first install ruby on your windows system. You can install latest version of Ruby from its home page but we recommend to go for Ruby 1.9.3 as it is mostly supported and compatible version at the time of writing this article. You can always download the older versions of Ruby from ruby website. You can download the ruby files as an archive but we recommend...

0 Selenium History

Sources: http://www.seleniumhq.org/about/history.jsp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_(software)#Selenium_WebDriver http://www.aosabook.org/en/selenium.html The goal of this tutorial is to explain what comprises and defines Selenium. For this we need to look at some of its history and its architecture too. In fact its history is nothing but understanding how it has evolved (architecture) with time and who helped it in its evolution. To be frank with you, to be a Selenium developer it is enough to go through current Selenium WebDriver 2.0 API but we would cover this anyway in our tutorials because we want to pay respect to super...

0 What languages are supported by Selenium and Why did we chose Ruby ?

Selenium is supported by major programming languages. This include: C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby. More details on support for Selenium can be found here. We have chosen Ruby for this tutorials for following reasons: Scripting languages are more convenient to work. Learning curve for Ruby is small. We have not chosen Python, because it is very strict on indentation and structure of program. We have not chosen Java, because the learning curve is large.  We wanted something that is easy to learn even for a person from a non-programming background. ...

0 What are available options in ruby in support of Selenium?

There are various drivers in ruby that provides implementation for Selenium WebDriver specification. This includes:  Selenium-WebDirver      Watir-WebDriver      Capybara PantomJS and probably many more... We would be using Watir-WebDriver in our examples. Once Watir-WebDriver is learned, the rest of the WebDrivers implementations should not be difficult for you to explore and find out.  See what Wikipedia has to say about Watir Webdriver: A must read article. I liked the author’s explanation on differences between the options we have mentioned above for Selenium automation in ruby: ...