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Name: [084] Robert Marchetti
Member: 36 months
Authored: 11 videos
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 ...

[1472] Script a simple Google search with WATIR using Elipse (1/4)

in series: Web Testing with Open Source tools - Overview and example

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This is the first in the series on how to Script a simple Google search with WATIR using Eclipse as the IDE.

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require "watir"

url = "www.google.com"

 ie = Watir::IE.new
 
 ie.goto url
 
ie.text_field(:name, "q").set "showmedo.com"

ie.button(:name, "btnG").click

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5. GodZilla_XF Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:08

Very good video.

4. Robert Marchetti Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:25

Your video has been edited. This is an automatic post by ShowMeDo.

3. gasto Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:23

Now it plays2 times.

2. gasto Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:22

Not working for me right now. Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 Windows XP SP3, Flash 10

Robert Marchetti Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:30

Your video has been edited. This is an automatic post by ShowMeDo.

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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 !@#@.

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good job

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very well done, concise and clear.

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Thanks for the quick start tutorial.

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thanks a lot, very well explained and useful !!

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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.

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nice good learn

anonymous 41 days ago

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

anonymous 47 days ago

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Thanks!! That was very helpful.

anonymous 2 months ago

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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 3 months ago

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Thank you!

anonymous 3 months ago

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thank you!

anonymous 3 months ago

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

anonymous 4 months ago

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Greate material

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

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