[Wtr-general] Data Driven Frameworks for Watir

[Bret Pettichord]

This is a quick status report on some recent research i've made into
data-driven testing frameworks for Watir.

The RubyFit framework looks pretty good. I've talked to its author, Giulio
Pascatelli, and he said that he was going to release a gem shortly.

To my thinking, the really useful Fixture is the Do Fixture. RubyFit is an
implementation of the Fit 1.1 spec, which does not include the Do Fixture.
Rather that is defined as part of the FitLibrary. I am talking to people
about seeing if we can get that implemented.

On the other hand, i was able to do 90% of what a Do Fixture does using the
Systir testing framework. That feeds in a test from a plain file rather than
an html table, but i was even able to create a simple converter (from a
table to the systir format) using rubyful-soup (this, by the way, is an
excellent html parser and gives me lots of ideas about how Watir could be
better.)

In fact, i'm wondering if i couldn't create a SystirFixture that would allow
a Fit table to be executed by a Systir driver....

Bret
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