[Wtr-general] Automation annoyingness

[Jared Quinert]

I'm voting to add this...I know I can add it myself, but it seems like a 
number of people are having to do this already.

Jared

> I think the remaining question is whether Watir should do this 
> automatically. I've actually coded this directly and tested it and it 
> works. It's only a couple of lines of code.
>
> The only complication is that if you do this on every call, you need 
> to make darn sure you put a limit on how long you will poll for the 
> existance of an object. What happens if the page changes and the 
> second page no longer has a link called "Second"? Dara's solution 
> would hang indefinitely, which is a bad thing for a test to do.
>
> So that means adding a timeout and then providing a means for users to 
> configure the timeout for their own tests.
>
> Should we build this into Watir?
>
> The main drawback is that every time there is a failure to find an 
> object, Watir will wait the timeout interval, before actually raising 
> the error. So it could make tests slower, especially when there are 
> lots of errors. On the other hand, you could just set the timeout to 
> 0, and then it would work the way it does today.
>
> Comments?
>
> Bret
>
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