I just read that this was specifically the Austin group (I'm in
Austin, but after reading a few threads, I may just want to post this
to the googlegroups watir group). Sorry =D, but feel free to respond
nonetheless!

Michael Bernstein
mbernstein@...

--- In watir-austin@yahoogroups.com, "sadjester" <mbernstein@...> wrote:
>
> I've been try to figure out what the best practice is for watir
> regarding running a number of tests in parallel. So far, other then
> deploying multiple machines and allocating "browser time" to a group
> of tests and managing that, I haven't had an amazing amount of luck.
>
> Initially, I thought - hey, we can just run some headless X11
> instances (on the same machine) with a virtual frame buffer and just
> assign firewatir specific ports to connect to - but I haven't found
> anything in the api yet that would allow that. An extension could be
> written, but before I undertake any kind of work to do that I was
> wondering if anyone had solved this problem. I'm aware of the firefox
> 2.0 work with the jssh plugin that utilizes multiple profiles to
> accomplish a similar goal, but I'd prefer to be able to utilize any
> browser version, etc. Worst case, running a number of vm's on the
> same machine *would* work, but you incur some extra overhead obviously.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Michael Bernstein
> apartmenthomeliving.com
>