From: Helder Ribeiro <helder@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T23:35:10+09:00
Subject: (Fire|)Watir and Selenium - Google SoC

Hi!

I've got a project to come up with a way to record user action in Ruby
code that can be executed by FireWatir. My idea is to parse the output
from TestGen4Web or Selenium-IDE. This idea was proposed in the ruby-
talk mailing list and in the Ruby Central SoC ideas page.

There is one thing though: what makes that different from just using
Selenium-IDE? Selenium can record, it can output Ruby code, and it can
then play it back in the browser.

I had read that Selenium had to be installed server-side, but then I
read that with Selenium-IDE being a Firefox extension it becomes a
trusted host and can run its own webserver and test any website it
wants.

So would this idea be redundant? Is there any substantial difference
between Selenium and (Fire|)Watir  that would justify doing this?

My application can be seen at http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra033245/soc_ruby.txt
if anyone's interested.

Thanks a lot!

Best,

Helder