Comments on: Running WatiN Tests on Vista

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:17:35 +0000

@Milan – I’m honestly not sure if you can automate an embedded web browser control that is hosted within the same process. You might be running into reentrancy problems between the COM apartments. I would recommend asking this question on the WatiN mailing list (http://watin.sourceforge.net/support.html).

By: Milan Solanki

Milan Solanki — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:56:07 +0000

Hi,

i am using watin with webbrowser control, on vista with vs2008,
its giving timeout exception, i need to use watin with embedded browser, please can you provide help regarding the same, i have added the site to trust zone, as mentioned in the above article.
here is my code.

var t = new Thread(() =>
{
Settings.AutoStartDialogWatcher = false;
var ie = new IE(webBrowser1.ActiveXInstance);
try
{
ie.GoTo(“http://www.google.com/”);
}
catch (Exception) { }

});
t.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
t.Start();

thank you.
Milan

By: Fabian Baptista

Fabian Baptista — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:56:12 +0000

Hi Adam, do you know haw can I start IExplore x86 with watin?
Actually watin open IExplore x64 in Vista 64. (c:\Program Files, insted of c:\program Files (x86))

Thanks

By: James Kovacs

James Kovacs — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:03:08 +0000

@Adam – So would I! We’ll see if I get to it before someone else does…

By: Adam Kahtava

Adam Kahtava — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:41:07 +0000

Selenium and its plugin for Firefox sold me.

I’d be interested in reading a blog post contrasting the two frameworks.

By: James Kovacs

James Kovacs — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:53:12 +0000

@Adam – I’m using WatiN because I want to seriously investigate both WatiN and Selenium for full stack integration testing of web apps and WatiN won the coin toss. When I get some spare time, Selenium will get its turn too. They both seem very viable frameworks for this type of testing.

By: Adam Kahtava

Adam Kahtava — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:38:55 +0000

Why are you using WatiN over Selenuim?