Behind story

This is my work on the WatiN source code. As one of my projects is still reusing the WatiN (it's a good library for automated testing) I needed to make some changes to the source code. I'm leaving some of the original things, but some of them will be removed.

Planned roadmap

• Cleaning the project.
• Move project to VS2017.
• Change .Net version.
• Reuse Nuget for the needed libraries (and use newer ones, we like this :)).
• Support for newer browsers:
  • Firefox (without JSSH, need to find what should be used).
  • Chrome (Jeroen started worked on it, but it's in reaaalllyyy unstable place).
  • IE 11 (Windows 10), Edge. (I don't think that IE 10 will be necessary [it should work, but I don't think it should support it]).
  • PhantomJS, Firefox -headless.
  • Firefox for Android
  • Firefox OS
• Move browsers support to external libraries, should reduce dependencies and also allow to write plugins for other "browsers".
• Fix tests (almost all of them, moqs).
• Remove documentation links to original page.
• Fix examples folder.

Credits

@Jeroen van Menen - for the awesome work on this.

Notes

• I know that there are currently better options to automate browsers, but WatiN was so easy to use ;)

Firefox usage

• close all running instances of Firefox
• run Firefox
• go to about:config
• find and change:

Preference Name	Value	Comment
devtools.debugger.remote-enabled	true	Required
devtools.chrome.enabled	true	Required
devtools.debugger.prompt-connection	false	Recommended

Original readme.txt (this will be removed/changed in future)

Welcome

Thanks for dowloading WatiN. WatiN (pronounced "what-in") stands for Web Application Testing in dotNet. Inspired by Watir, WatiN enables web application testing, through Internet Explorer on a Windows platform, expressed in any .Net language.

Visit http://watin.org for more information and to download the latest version.

License

WatiN is Apache License 2.0 licensed so before using WatiN please read the license.txt so you know the terms and conditions for using and modifying WatiN.

Pre requisits

• WatiN can only be run on a Windows operating system
• Make sure you have a working IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox 2 or Firefox 3.x installed on your machine.
• The .Net 2.0 or later framework needs to be installed.

Installing WatiN

• Create an installation directory like C:\Program Files\WatiN .
• unzip the files in this zip file to the installation directory.
• ready!

Using WatiN

Following are the basic steps:

• Create a new project in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 (or another dev tool like SharpDevelop).
• Add a reference to WatiN.Core.dll in the installation directory.
• Start coding and exploring the object model (See the code files in the UnitTests directory for code examples).

For a more complete example visit http://watin.org/documentation/getting-started/. For more documentation about (using) WatiN visit http://watin.org/documentation/. Or read my blogposts at http://watinandmore.blogspot.com (no new updates)

Support

Subscribe to the mailinglist(s) and/or use the bug and feature tracker on http://sourceforge.net/projects/watin (not maintaned) for the intended purposes. (Note: SourceForge - feature-requests (not maintained), SourceForge - bugs (not maintained))

Enjoy testing with WatiN!

Copyright Jeroen van Menen 2011