[Wtr-general] Automation annoyingness

[Jared Quinert]

Working out what is happening when your script is failing in this 
instance was time-consuming and non-obvious.  I assume that Watir's 
audience includes people who may not figure out what is going on when 
their script appears to randomly fail.  It makes sense to me to prevent 
this problem if it can be done without much of an impact on performance.

Jared



Lonny Eachus wrote:
> Apologies for the post with the wrong subject line . . .
>
> By automatically, I would hope you mean a kind of "wait_for()" method, 
> rather than doing it unseen in the background. At first thought it 
> seems the latter would be terribly inefficient, especially since it is 
> only necessary in relatively rare cases.
>
> Time and efficiency are definitely a concern in our screen scrapes. I 
> was already considering overriding existing delays in the code. If 
> this loop were done every time, we would likely be in the position of 
> having to go into the Watir code to take it back out, in order to 
> regain what efficiency we could.
>
> Lonny Eachus
>
>
>> Subject:
>> Re: [Wtr-general] Automation annoyingness
>> From:
>> "Bret Pettichord" <bret at pettichord.com>
>> Date:
>> Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:31:47 -0500
>>
>>
>> On 6/7/06, *Lillis, Dara* <dara.lillis at kiodex.com 
>> <mailto:dara.lillis at kiodex.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     while not ($ie.link(:text,"Second").exists?)
>>       sleep 0.5
>>     end
>>     $ie.link(:text,"Second").click
>>
>>
>> This is what i do as well.
>>
>> 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.
>> . . .
>
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