1. Webdriver Automation
using Watir and Cucumber

2. Agenda
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Tools & Technologies
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Overview Of Technologies Used
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Why Watir?
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Framework Architecture
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Framework Features
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Framework Workflow
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Comparison Analysis
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What's next in Phase II
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Questions & Feedback

3. Tools & Technologies
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Ruby 1.9.3 and following Gems:
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Watir-webdriver
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Cucumber
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Development IDE (Eclipse version 3.x)
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CI Tool (Jenkins)
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Selenium Grid version 2.42.x .
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JDK latest

4. Overview Of Technologies Used

Ruby: Simple and easy to learn language.
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Watir Webdriver – This provides simplicity of Watir along with
advance WebDriver functionality.
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Cucumber: Providing Behaviour Development Driven
framework, i.e. Writing scripts in plain language.
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Cucumber allows reporting in HTML and JSON (JavaScript
Object Notation).
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Cucumber makes parallel execution and reporting more
simple.
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Selenium Grid provides option to execute suite remotely.
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Jenkins implementation for scheduling and email notification.

5. Why Watir?
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WATIR is wrapped around Selenium-webdriver with added
functions known as Watir-Webdriver.
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Watir automatically waits for the page to finish loading.
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Watir is open source and Watir community is growing strong.
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Cucumber has perfect match with Watir-webDriver, which in
turn result in faster script creation using BDD framework
approach.
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Watir’s API is easier to use and has more features whereas in
Selenium every web component is web-element.
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Watir-webdriver code is more understandable and readable,
as it is written in Ruby language.

6. Framework Architecture

7. Framework Features
S.No Features Status
1 Runs on Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. 
2 High maintainability with Page object model embedded
in Cucumber.
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3 Screen-shot on failure. 
4 Archiving the previous results. 
5 Parallel execution locally or remotely. 
6 Re-execution logic. 
7 Scheduling with CI tool. 
8 Email notification with attached HTML report. 
9 Sauce Labs Integration. 

8. Framework Work flow

9. Comparison Analysis
Watir-Webdriver Selenium-
Webdriver QTP Test
Complete
Language
easiness Easy Script Creation Complex Script
Creation
VBScript is
easy
Good
programming
IDE No IDE, uses eclipse
plug-in
No IDE, uses
eclipse plug-in
Has its own
IDE
Has its own
IDE
OS
Supported Windows/ Mac/ Linux Windows/ Mac/
Linux Windows Windows
Record And
Play
Yes
(Watir Recorder ++) Yes Yes Yes
Execution
Speed Fast Speed can be
adjusted Fast Medium
Licence Cost Open-Source Open-Source Paid Paid

10. Questions & Feedback
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