Watir: Web App Testing in Ruby
March 16, 2008 § Leave a Comment
What is it:It is an open source library to automate web browser, controlling it from command line. It is written in Ruby.What’s the downside:It can only control IE. But worry not, there’s FireWatir. FireWatir can control Firefox in addition to IE.What are the alternatives:
- Mechanize is written in Python.
- Which is based on WWW-Mechanize on Perl.
References:
- Watir Main Site
- FireWatir Main Site at Google Code
- Mechanize Python Main Site
- WWW-Mechanize Perl Main Site
