Problem with jenkins headless browser test
Looks like you have to be logged in for popup tests to work:
- http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/27561fa8429b36c/
- http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/c95462c2ecc93209/
(Tip: when searching watir-general, search for hudson, not jenkins.)
I believe that Watir-Webdriver has better support for running headless than Watir does. Watir itself is really designed to automate the actual IE browser, and potentially some things may not work right if IE is not actually rendering the UI to a screen.
Watir-Webdriver supports IE, FF, Chrome, and Headless. See this entry from Alister Scott's Watirmelon blog where he gives an example of how to run it headless using htmlunit