WatiN Documentation

Following are some links to the spares documentation currently available. See the support page for other options the get or find information about using WatiN.

Current release

Read the release documentation for the current release here or visit the release notes history.

Articles

The Getting started article shows a basic scenario; searching Google and how to automate this with WatiN. It also explains how the IE Developer Toolbar can help you with your automation tasks.

The WatiN and Thread.Apartmentstate article explains the why and how of setting the ApartmentState of a Thread to STA (single treaded apartment). It also explains how to do this when using WatiN with NUnit, MBUnit, Visual Studio Team System, TestDriven.Net or SharpDevelop to run your tests.

In his blog WatiN Testing Design Pattern Richard Griffin talks about his WatiN Testing Design Pattern. This pattern is a good way to organize your code if you will have lots of tests.

Bruce McLeod has blogged about accessing HTMLDialogs and WatiN based unit tests using the ASP.NET Development web server and has started a reference project on codeplex

Documentation

MSDN style online documentation. This is the online version of the help file available in the distribution. Not everything is documented yet but it does contain some code examples to get you started.

This document provides a Mapping table between the html element in your web page html code and the WatiN API.

Frequently Asked  Questions A list of frequently asked questions about WatiN.

Release documentation history

• WatiN 2.0 CTP (released on 12 March 2008)
• WatiN 1.2.1.4000 (released on 23 October 2007)
• WatiN 1.2.0.4000 (released on 4 October 2007)
• WatiN 1.1.2.4000 (released on 16 May 2007)
• WatiN 1.1.1.4000 (released on 15 May 2007)
• WatiN 1.1.0.4000 (released on 2 May 2007)
• WatiN 1.0.0.4000 (released on 1 March 2007)
• WatiN 0.9.5.4000 (released on 31 December 2006)
• WatiN 0.9.0.4000 (released on 31 October 2006)
• WatiN 0.8.0.4000 (released on 31 August 2006)
• WatiN 0.7.0.4000 (released on 8 July 2006)
• WatiN 0.6.0.3000 (released on 31 May 2006)

Roadmap

The roadmap gives some insight into the future development of WatiN.