From: testautomated6@...
Date: 2008-03-29T00:00:11+09:00
Subject: boolean and logging

Hi,

I use Ruby and Watir

I have a method:

  def does_the_html_include(target)
     puts "HTML text of #{target} is being verified"
     if target.kind_of? String
       return $browser.text.include?(target)
     elsif target.kind_of? Regexp
       return $browser.text.match(target)
     end
   end


 I wrap this up in a logger

    def test_results(result, *msg)
      #make true explicit, everything else I am seeing as a failure
      if result == true
        test_status = @test.add_element 'teststatus'
        test_status.text = 'PASS'
      else
        fail = @test.add_element 'teststatus'
        fail.text = 'FAIL'
        fail_msg = @test.add_element 'failmessage'
        fail_msg.text = msg
      end
   end


However, when I don't want HTML text to appear, eg: an error. I want
to do something better than this

boolean = does_the_html_include('You appear to have an active
account')
$test.test_results(!boolean, 'already have registered account')

Any ideas?

Cheers

Aidy