Watir download browser

For more thoughts on this, read this article. It is older and focused on Selenium, but the points are still relevant. If your manager insists you absolutely must test the download via the browser, you can initialize the Browser object with parameters telling the browser to automatically download files to a particular directory rather than prompting the Operating System. If you want to know a way to work out the file types eg.

Is it sufficient to validate that the link is present? Here, you can find the download version available for windows. As per your OS, download the 32 or 64 bit windows IE. Also add the location to you PATH variable to make use of the driver.

The drivers for safari are not required to be downloaded externally for safari version 10 onwards. They are downloaded along with the gem package while installing Watir. Please note that drivers for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer are also available when Watir is installed. But incase if you face any issues and need a specific version to be tested, you can download them as per your browser and update the location in PATH to make use of it in testing your application.

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