Watir Cheat sheet

 

Getting Started with Watir

require ‘watir’	Load the Watir library
ie = Watir::IE.start (‘http://localhost:8080’)	Start IE using the local timeclock server.
ie.close	Close IE.
ie = Watir::IE.attach(:title, ‘title‘)	Attach to an existing IE window, so you can drive it with Watir.

 

Manipulating Controls with Watir

ie.text_field(:name, ‘name‘).set(‘value‘)	Set the text field specified name specified value.
ie.button(:value, ‘value‘).click	Click the button with the specified value (label)
ie.button(:name, ‘name‘).click	Click the button with the specified name.
ie.checkbox(:name, ‘name‘).set	Check the check box named “name”. (Uncheck: clear)
ie.object(:attribute, ‘name‘).flash	Cause the specified control to flash.

 

A Special Testing Function For Timeclock

require ‘toolkit/testhook’ ensure_no_user_data ‘name‘

Delete any database records for the named user.

 

Accessing Page Contents with Watir

ie.contains_text(‘text‘)	Return true if the current page has the specified text somewhere on the page. Otherwise, false.
ie.title	Return the title of the current page.
ie.html	Return all the HTML in the body of the page
ie.table(:id, ‘recent_records).to_a	Return an array containing the text in the table’s rows and columns.
ie.table(:id, ‘recent_records’)[2][1].text	Return the text from the first column of the second row of the table id’d ‘recent_records.

 

Assertions

assert_equal(expected, test_method)	Test whether the expected value matches the actual value returned by the test method
assert_match(regexp, test_method)	Test whether the regular expression matches the actual value returned by the test method.
assert(expression)	Test whether the expression is true.