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Watir, pronounced "water", is an acronym standing for "Web Application Testing in Ruby". Watir is a toolkit used to automate browser-based tests during web application development. It uses the Ruby scripting language to drive Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, and is available as a RubyGems gem.

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Whether to choose Selenium over Watir or Lightweight Test Automation when testing web applic...

Using Watir-Webdriver gives you IMHO the best of both worlds, with wide browser support due to Webdriver and the easy coding of Watir. … If you like Watir better, be sure you immediately adopt using it with Watir-Webdriver as well. …
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Is drag-and-drop possible in watir-webdriver?

don't recall off the top of my head what the solution was (would need to go back and find that code) I'd recommend asking on the main StackOverflow site and tag the question with Watir and Watir-webdriver … a lot more of the Watir folks watch that site than this one …
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Good Watir or Watir-Webdriver tutorials/resources for new-to-automation testers?

For Watir itself, the Watir Wiki has a tutorial http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Start+Here which I recommend as a first step/introduction. … A close second is the Watir General group in Google-Groups (http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general) which is a very active watir community (although the restrictions on message formatting make it …