# Functionnal testing : Watir vs Selenium

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functionnal-testing-watir-vs-selenium/60781>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 17, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functionnal-testing-watir-vs-selenium/60781 "2006-05-17T13:39:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![nuno](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/65b543/32.png) [@nuno](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuno)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functionnal-testing-watir-vs-selenium/60781/1 "2006-05-17T13:39:54Z")

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Hello, I wonder if some of you have evaluated these two solutions and  
how they compares each other.

What did you liked or disliked ?

And may be are you aware of others functionnal testing tools usable with  
and integrated with Ruby ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![nuno](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/65b543/32.png) [@nuno](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuno)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/functionnal-testing-watir-vs-selenium/60781/2 "2006-07-12T21:08:51Z")

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We use Watir to make over 11,000 checks on our site and it performs very  
well.  
the main advantage of watir is that you can have to code on one server  
and point it at any number of target servers. we have staging, cert and  
live servers which can all be tested from one watir install.  
Selenium on the other hand must be run on the machine your testing. This  
can cause problems if you can easily modify code on the environment your  
testing.  
The main disadvantage to watir is that it only works on windows with IE.  
Although i have seen various projects to run watir on Linux under Wine  
and Firefox extensions that provide an interface to watir.

t

Nuno wrote:

> Hello, I wonder if some of you have evaluated these two solutions and  
> how they compares each other.
> 
> What did you liked or disliked ?
> 
> And may be are you aware of others functionnal testing tools usable with  
> and integrated with Ruby ?
> 
> Thanks