I am watching the Dreams DVD from Fleetwood Mac and writing the last chapter for Professional Community Server when it hit me, you can combine Watir and RSpec.  RSpec is a "framework for practicing Behavior Driven Development in Ruby (BDD)."  Meanwhile, Watir is a framework for testing the presentation of a site using Internet Explorer.  Whenever you combine the two you get something that is nothing short of magic (Sarah Silverman could have called it Watir + RSpec is Magic).  I am exaggerating this point slightly, but it is still a very nice outcome.

To run my code you will need Ruby + Watir + RSpec.

The main point is to be able to declare simple action statements using Watir for a site and then define some behavior with expectations for those Watir actions.  For testing the behavior of the Google site I have created the following Ruby code:

require 'watir'
include Watir
class GoogleSearch
  def startup 
    @@ie = Watir::IE.start("http://google.com")
  end
  def ie
    if defined? @@ie
      @@ie
    else
      startup
    end
  end
  def containingSearchBox?
    ie.text_field(:name, /q$/).exists? 
  end
  def containingSearchButton?
    ie.button(:name, /btnG$/).exists?
  end
  def performSearch search
    ie.text_field(:name, /q$/).set(search)
    ie.button(:name, /btnG$/).click
  end
  def containingSearchItem? search
    ie.contains_text(search)
  end 
end
context "The Google Homepage" do
  setup do
    @googleSearch = GoogleSearch.new
  end
  specify "should contain search box" do
    @googleSearch.should_be_containingSearchBox
  end
  specify "should contain search button" do
    @googleSearch.should_be_containingSearchButton
  end
end
context "Google search results" do
  setup do
    @googleSearch = GoogleSearch.new
  end
  specify "should contain search item that was searched" do
    @googleSearch.performSearch 'wyatt preul'
    @googleSearch.should_be_containingSearchItem 'wyatt preul'
  end
end

As you can see, the Watir code is contained in the top class and the code that defines this behavior is contained in the bottom context sections.  It is also important to note that all of this code is contained in the same file, which I named WatirSpec_Google_test.rb. 

After running the code using the spec command I get the following output:

Also, it is important to note that IE fires up a new window and performs the search when I run this specification.  This is a new way that you can perform Watir testing without building actual test cases.  There is a lot of potential usefulness out of using BDD as well, especially because of how readable it makes your results :)