[Wtr-general] Handling multiple versions of a website [advice needed]

[Chris McMahon]

On 10/25/06, John Lolis <forum-watir-users at openqa.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the input davemunns, its nice to hear from someone who is so
> far along in a project.
>
> My only real fear is that of maintaining such a giant library. If you were
> to leave your company tomorrow, would someone be able to pick it up in time
> before it got too out of date?



I have a framework along the lines of Mr. Munn's, but mine is organized more
along the lines of verbs than of nouns.   I have a high-level controller
capable of calling any number of actions implemented in a middle level.
Each of the middle-level actions may use a set of tag-level libraries for
our app, kept in a set of low-level scripts.  All of the Watir happens at
the lowest level; all of the actions in the middle and upper layers are
domain-specific.  My framework isn't good enough to detect GUI changes
automatically, but I could do that if I had to.

As for designing one of these yourself, read this article from Kevin
Lawrence: http://www.developertesting.com/archives/GrowYourHarness.pdf.  If
you don't understand it right away, read it again, and again, until you do.
This is exactly how you create a large, effective, maintainable test
framework.
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