# Watir or selenium **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 27, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-or-selenium/177983 "2009-10-27T15:00:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erika)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-or-selenium/177983/1 "2009-10-27T15:00:41Z")
Hi, I’m searching any info of comparing Watir and Selenium. I have found a lot of usefull links&tips on the internet, but if you have some recent comparison of these two let me know. Many thanks, E. ---
**Author:** ![erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erika)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-or-selenium/177983/2 "2009-10-27T15:13:34Z")
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:59, Erika [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > > I’m searching any info of comparing Watir and Selenium. > > I have found a lot of usefull links&tips on the internet, but if you have some recent comparison of these two let me know. > > Many thanks, > E. I’m afraid that you’re not going to find any comparisons of the two, since they solve two completely different (and incomparable) problems. Waitr can be compared to autotest. It is a means to automate the running of your tests, building of your documents, or any number of things you might do, whenever you save a file in your project. Selenium is a testing framework/language. I guess it could be compared to Cucumber, and similar projects, but none of these can be compared to Waitr/autotest. The two can be used together, but one cannot replace the other, if that’s what you’re looking for. -Jacob ---
**Author:** ![erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erika)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-or-selenium/177983/3 "2009-10-27T17:03:03Z")
2009/10/27 Jacob H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Waitr can be compared to autotest. It is a means to automate the > running of your tests, building of your documents, or any number of > things you might do, whenever you save a file in your project. Sounds more like Watchr ([GitHub - mynyml/watchr: Modern continuous testing (flexible alternative to Autotest)](http://github.com/mynyml/watchr)) to me. I imagine Erika is referring to Watir ([http://watir.com/](http://watir.com/)). ---
**Author:** ![erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-or-selenium/177983/4 "2009-10-28T05:16:38Z")
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Jacob H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > Forgive me for being naive, but I really can’t fathom this analogy, especially the comparison of Watir to autotest. Can you go into depth a bit more? I see immense overlap in what Watir and Selenium do, and don’t really understand the distinction you’re trying to make here. I see them both as automated functional testing frameworks for web applications. Apparently you disagree? ---
**Author:** ![erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-or-selenium/177983/5 "2009-10-28T05:12:31Z")
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:02, Tom S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 2009/10/27 Jacob H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > Waitr can be compared to autotest. Â It is a means to automate the > > running of your tests, building of your documents, or any number of > > things you might do, whenever you save a file in your project. > > Sounds more like Watchr ([GitHub - mynyml/watchr: Modern continuous testing (flexible alternative to Autotest)](http://github.com/mynyml/watchr)) to me. I > imagine Erika is referring to Watir ([http://watir.com/](http://watir.com/)). Yup, my bad. Far too long of a day at work :-\ ---
**Author:** ![erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@erika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/watir-or-selenium/177983/6 "2009-10-28T08:58:29Z")
Hi, Yes I was referint to watir ([www.watir.com](http://www.watir.com)) and selenium ([www.seleniumhq.com](http://www.seleniumhq.com)). Many thanks, E. * * * From: Jacob H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: ruby-talk ML [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 6:07:43 AM Subject: Re: watir or selenium On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:02, Tom S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 2009/10/27 Jacob H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > Waitr can be compared to autotest. It is a means to automate the > > running of your tests, building of your documents, or any number of > > things you might do, whenever you save a file in your project. > > Sounds more like Watchr ([GitHub - mynyml/watchr: Modern continuous testing (flexible alternative to Autotest)](http://github.com/mynyml/watchr)) to me. I > imagine Erika is referring to Watir ([http://watir.com/](http://watir.com/)). Yup, my bad. Far too long of a day at work :-\