Since the latest release of chrome (34.0.1847.116) last week, I have been receiving the “Disable developer mode extensions" when running automated tests using watir-webdriver. This seems to be th...

I am using Watir-Webdriver with Firefox and the method recommended on the watirwebdriver.com site to automate file downloads. This involves setting FireFox about:config parameters to disable the do...

I'm new to WATIR testing (and do I love it!) and have run into a wall on how to refocus my WATIR script to a newly opened window.. Here's my (simplified) script.... #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubyge...

First week with watir-webdriver and Web app testing in general, so still trying to wrap some concepts around. Having this javascript element: <input type="submit" class="button" value="Search"...

I am trying to scroll a web page to find and click on a content that is lazily loaded when the page is scrolled. I am using following command require 'watir-webdriver' @browser = Watir::new :fire...

I'm trying to create additional tabs in Firefox using Watir webdriver. However, I'm not having much luck After opening the browser: require 'watir-webdriver' b =Watir::Browser.new I want to open...

I am trying to run multiple feature file using tags, i have tried the command cucumber --tag @some_name --tag @some_name1. But it throws an error which reads as follows, "WARNING: cannot load such...

How could i save image, which is loaded via watir-webdriver? All manuals and examples show only fetching src of image, and using open-uri saving it. But i need to save that image, which was generat...

So let's say pretty often a script runs that opens a browser and does web things: require 'watir-webdriver' $browser = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox, :profile => "botmode") => #<Watir::Br...

I can do the following using Chrome Driver: b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :switches => ['--user-data-dir=C:/some_folder/'] # same philosophy for selenium, just a bit of a different syntax. ...

So, we have the following code in our page: <div class="toggle-wrapper"> <input id="HasRegistration_true" class="registration_required toggle" type="radio" value="True" name="HasRegistra...

I developed a crawler with ruby watir-webdriver that downloads some files from a page. My problem is that when I click to download the second file, Chrome opens a bar in the top asking for confirma...

I am trying to automate an online survey on a website but I get this error each time: Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (561, 864). Other ...

In the watir documentation (http://watir.com/guides/chrome/), it has been mentioned that doing Watir::Browser.new :chrome, headless: true will enable us to use headless chrome This does not see...

I'm using Watir-webdriver and I was wondering if there was a good way to check if a new window opens. I've googled around a bit and couldn't find anything though it feels like there should be an ea...

Is there a chrome switch to suppress 'external protocol request' ? I am automating an application using selenium - ruby - watir webdriver. I searched over net for solutions to bypass this window ...

I’m trying to automate some tasks on a webpage, and part of it includes clicking a link that’ll show a javascript alert where you have to press “OK”. Trouble is, when it gets to that point, it fail...

I have a step definition, below, that does what I want it to do i.e. it checks the url of the page against the 'page' element of 'PAGES' hash. Then(/^I should( still)? be at the "(.*)" page$/) do ...

I need to save image from recaptcha to localhost disk, i'm getting image dom element using watir-webdriver, but it doesn't support save method, as watir do. So how can i save image to my disk? Html...

Watir is a Selenium-based black-box testing tool that can automate tasks on the browser. I would like to be able to open up a Watir::Browser.new that is in private browsing mode. Thanks

There is a div on a page that is not visible but has some value I want to capture. Calling text on it returns me an empty string. How do I get the value displayed without having to deal with the r...

I use watir with firefox to grab a webpage after filling a form. Here a short part of my code: browser.button(:type => 'submit').click sleep 10 browser.element(:id => 'footer').wait_until_pr...

I know this is a very silly question. Yet, am not able to find how to make the browser open in fullscreen mode using watir webdriver. i tried using maximize() but in vain. This is how the code look...

I started running into tons of these errors today: Net::ReadTimeout (Net::ReadTimeout) /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/protocol.rb:158:in `rescue in rbuf_fill' /usr/local/...

When an element is out of view with selenium and one tries to interact with it, selenium will usually scroll the element into view first implicitly. This is great except that what is annoying is th...