senthil.nayagam@gmail.com
5/17/2006 5:02:00 AM
Adam,
I am a great fan of Watir, but I do not use it for all the work, as it
becomes slower.
For my company's new site, which is on rails, I had to do link
validations and also analysis of links, keywords, page size etc.
I used Ruby WWW::Mechanize, to build a custom bot to identify and crawl
all pages, and collect statistics
Results: my site has 120+ pages and 7000+ internal links, 50+ external
links, this includes content from our CMS.
also it found few broken links, which we were able to fix.
webserver logs, website tracking tools are useful for analysis
I use Watir for small testing tasks like authentication, js bugs,
screenshots.
regards
SenthilNayagam