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

[Bret Pettichord]

John Lolis wrote:
> Has anyone thought of a good way of managing such changes? Do you make one giant 'mapping' class and just update that as needed? Do you store the Watir calls and generate code around them? 
>   
I have a library of some 1250 lines of code. Although some of it was 
written as a result of refactoring working tests along the lines that 
Kevin Lawrence writes about in the article cited by Chris, most was 
directly test driven by specific tests that were designed to test-drive 
the automation framework. I have 700 lines of such tests. These of 
course are in addition to the tests that were written to test our 
application.

I believe that simple tests of your framework are the best way to detect 
problems. They can be used to verify that the framework matches up to 
the application.

Bret