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Name: [084] Robert Marchetti
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Description: President of Stone Circle Technologies Inc. in Salem, MA. Developer of the IE automation tool P.A.M.I.E (Python Automation module for IE)which is written in python. Scripting Languages: Groovy, Python and Ruby. Test Tools: Pamie, QTP, WatiJ, Watir. Musician: Bass Guitar, Electric/Acous ...

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This video describes the installation of Ruby and Watir.

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3. Raje Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:24

thanks for your video tutorial,

I followed the video tutorial but unfortuantely after installing ruby and watir when i type irb and require 'watir'. It it returning no such file found --watir <loadError>

Will you please help me out.I followed your steps and it was same as you explained in your tutorial.

Thanks

Raj

2. thabet Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:04

Hi Robert,

I was searching for watir tutorial for Ubuntu when I found your vedio. It is a nice intro.

Thanks and wish you the best.

anonymous Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:36

Kudos and Thanks for Robert

Parameterize Test Data using XML

very helpful, thanks

andre 5 days ago

Writing Test Scripts for PAMIE - Part 1 of 2

perfect videos

andre 5 days ago

Script a simple Google search with WATIR using Elipse

Hello Sir,

I really love your video presentation. I am totally impressed and excited and decided to learn watir. Thanks a lot tons. You had set an inspiration for me to learn this. I am a non technical person and I have a tech phobia thinking I cannot do this. But after reading seeing ur presentation it gave me lot of confidence. Thanks a lot.

Madhuri

Madhuri 18 days ago

PyDev on a Mac

Very helpful getting started. Resolution was a bit of a problem.

R. Mark Sharp 19 days ago

Installing Watir

thanks for your video tutorial,

I followed the video tutorial but unfortuantely after installing ruby and watir when i type irb and require 'watir'. It it returning no such file found --watir <loadError>

Will you please help me out.I followed your steps and it was same as you explained in your tutorial.

Thanks

Raj

Raje 20 days ago

Script a simple Google search with WATIR using Elipse

This is a great basic video

Arun 24 days ago

PyDev on a Mac

Hey this little video is still being helpful to the folks!

I just used it today to setup eclipse for python on my mac after a night of !@#@.

Newbie2010 36 days ago

Automate Web Testing with Pamie

good job

angel 49 days ago

Automation with Firefox extension ChickenFoot (Macintosh or Windows)

very well done, concise and clear.

W. Schulter 49 days ago

Ruby and the RDT Eclipse Ruby Plugin

Thanks for the quick start tutorial.

Very well done. Even with a newer version of Eclipse installed I was able to follow along and produce the expected results.

Mark 51 days ago

PyDev on a Mac

thanks a lot, very well explained and useful !!

51 days ago

Parameterize Test Data using XML

Great ! Thank you, this video gives me a lot of idea.

anonymous 60 days ago

Writing Test Scripts for PAMIE - Part 1 of 2

I am a new user of Pamie as well as a new user of Python. I just want to thank you for the program and the instructional video. I didn't find any help manual or orther written documentation. Does this exist?

P.S. For your info, I intend to use Pamie to get financial data from financial websites (yahoo, msn, etc.) and save it to text files so that I can import it into Excel. Excel has a built-in capability, but the tool seems to get lost pretty quickly on complicated web pages. Also Excel's VBA interface does not fully control the tool.

anonymous 2 months ago

Writing Test Scripts for PAMIE - Part 1 of 2

nice good learn

anonymous 2 months ago

PyDev on a Mac

Excellent tutorial! Went through the basics, just need an update, but fantastic work!

anonymous 2 months ago

PyDev on a Mac

Thanks!! That was very helpful.

anonymous 3 months ago

PyDev on a Mac

I'm using Eclipse platform 3.5.1 on OS X 10.5.8, a few commands have changed but this tutorial was very helpful... Great job.

anonymous 4 months ago

PyDev on a Mac

Thank you!

anonymous 4 months ago

PyDev on a Mac

thank you!

anonymous 4 months ago

PyDev on a Mac

Thanks for the quick overview of setting up PyDev on the Mac.

anonymous 5 months ago

Writing Test Scripts for PAMIE - Part 1 of 2

Greate material

anonymous 6 months ago

Ruby and the RDT Eclipse Ruby Plugin

Nice one. Anyone that takes time to make vid tut's deserves a thumbs up. *thumbs up*

anonymous 6 months ago

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