WATIR, pronounced "Water", is an acronym standing for "Web Application Testing in Ruby". Watir is a toolkit used to automate browser-based tests during web application development. This automated test tool uses the Ruby scripting language to drive the Internet Explorer web browser, and is available as a Ruby Gem. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers.
Watir makes use of the fact that Ruby has built in OLE capabilities. ...
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WATIR, pronounced "Water", is an acronym standing for "Web Application Testing in Ruby". Watir is a toolkit used to automate browser-based tests during web application development. This automated test tool uses the Ruby scripting language to drive the Internet Explorer web browser, and is available as a Ruby Gem. Watir was primarily developed by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers.
Watir makes use of the fact that Ruby has built in OLE capabilities. As such it is possible to drive the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser programmatically. Watir operates differently than HTTP based test tools, which operate by simulating a browser. Instead Watir directly drives the browser through the Object Linking and Embedding protocol, which is implemented over the Component Object Model (COM) architecture.
The COM permits interprocess communication (such as between Ruby and IE) and dynamic object creation and manipulation (which is what the Ruby program does to the Internet Explorer browser.) Microsoft...
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