{"id":519,"date":"2010-08-18T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2010-08-18T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:10:52","slug":"record-and-playback-with-watir-script-recorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/record-and-playback-with-watir-script-recorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Record and playback with Watir script recorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frequently asked question for Watir seems to be whether there are any &#8220;record and playback&#8221; tools.\u00a0 While most of the references point to a somewhat old tool, two viable alternatives seem much harder to find for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>The first is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmetrics.com\">Webmetrics<\/a>&#8216; Global Watch Script recorder, available at http:\/\/www.webmetrics.com\/products\/script_recorder.html<\/p>\n<p>The second, is <a href=\"http:\/\/cubictest.seleniumhq.org\/\">CubicTest<\/a>.\u00a0 This uses SeleniumIDE to record the test, but can generate a script for Watir.<\/p>\n<p>(Update) A third is the <a href=\"http:\/\/itest2.com\/en\/testwise\/downloads\">Testwise Watir Recorder<\/a>, a Firefox plugin which I looked at a while back, but am unsure of it&#8217;s current state.<\/p>\n<p>These will only get you so far, and have their own limitations, the most obvious of which is some corporate applications which only work in Internet Explorer. If a recorder is what you need though, there are a few options and these may get you further.\u00a0 At any rate, hopefully they&#8217;re now easier for people to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frequently asked question for Watir seems to be whether there are any &#8220;record and playback&#8221; tools.\u00a0 While most of the references point to a somewhat old tool, two viable alternatives seem much harder to find for some reason. The first is Webmetrics&#8216; Global Watch Script recorder, available at http:\/\/www.webmetrics.com\/products\/script_recorder.html The second, is CubicTest.\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41],"tags":[103,104,102,101,139,105],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-tools","category-watir","tag-capture-and-playback","tag-cubictest","tag-record-and-playback","tag-script-recorder","tag-watir","tag-watir-recoder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}