#46 Jarmo Pertman on Watir 2.0

September 26th, 2011 · · Watir 5 comments - Tags: , ,

Željko Filipin Jarmo Pertman

Željko Filipin talks with Jarmo Pertman about the recent release of Watir 2.0.

This episode is sponsored by Watir book! If you would like to sponsor an episode, let me know.

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is by George Sanders from Portland, Oregon.

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Show notes:

  • 1:00 – Introduction.
  • 1:38 – Jarmo’s gems: RAutomation and WatirSplash.
  • 2:44 – Watir 2.0: zero based indexing, firewatir is deprecated, locators for collections, default zero based locators.
  • 9:48 – Future plans: decrease incompatibilities between watir and watir-webdriver gems even further with the help of watirspec gem.
  • 11:12 – Our sites.
  • 12:15 – Jarmo says a few words in Estonian.
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#45 Bret Pettichord’s Opening Keynote at Selenium Conference 2011

May 18th, 2011 · · Watir 5 comments - Tags: ,

Bret Pettichord

Bret Pettichord‘s Opening Keynote at Selenium Conference 2011.

This is the first time I have published a podcast that I did not record, but this is one of the best talks I have heard so far and I thought it should be published here.

I would like to thank Michael Larsen for producing the podcast. Show notes are at Michael Larsen’s Podcasts page and Bret’s blog post A Ninja Strike to the Brain. Bret’s blog post also has video version of the talk.

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#44 Tim Koopmans on WatirGrid and Gridinit

May 4th, 2011 · · Watir 9 comments - Tags: ,

Željko Filipin Tim Koopmans

Željko Filipin talks with Tim Koopmans of Altentee about WatirGrid and Gridinit.

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Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is by George Sanders from Portland, Oregon.

Show notes:

  • 0:30 – Introduction.
  • 1:00 – About Tim.
  • 2:00 – Can Watir be used for load testing?
  • 3:00 – WatirGrid.
  • 5:53 – Gridinit.
  • 7:00 – Supported browsers and Watir gems.
  • 7:42 – Other tools it supports.
  • 11:52 – Competition.
  • 13:07 – Closing thoughts.
  • 14:15 – Links to our sites.
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#43 Andreas Tolf Tolfsen on OperaWatir 2/2

April 16th, 2011 · · OperaWatir 4 comments - Tags:

Željko Filipin Andreas Tolf Tolfsen

Željko Filipin talks with Andreas Tolf Tolfsen about OperaWatir.

We are proud to be a part of Testing Podcast family. You can find audio podcasts on software testing there. All of them.

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Exam in Composition A To by Andreas himself.

Felipe Knorr Kuhn prepared most of the questions for this episode, but got sick just before recording, so we recorded without him.

Show notes:

  • 0:30 – Introduction.
  • 1:25 – On testing at Opera Software.
  • 2:31 – See you at Selenium Conference and viaqa
  • 3:01 – Andreas is involved in other free software/open source projects, like WebC.
  • 5:20 – Why Opera browser has low market share on desktop?
  • 6:20 – A few nice features of Opera browser.
  • 7:30 – The current status of OperaWatir and OperaDriver.
  • 11:28 – Watir is usually used to test web applications, but at Opera Software it is used to test browsers.
  • 12:15 – Watir 2.0 API and WatirSpec.
  • 15:40 – The future of OperaWatir and OperaDriver.
  • 17:57 – OperaWatir is licensed under BSD license.
  • 18:28 – OperaWatir community: web site, operawatir-users mailing list, rubygems.org/gems/operawatir.
  • 22:05 – A few words about beer and music.
  • 24:24 – What does Andreas do when he is not near a computer?
  • 25:39 – Closing thoughts: “I am so surprised that the web actually works. And it works surprisingly well.”
  • 27:40 – Our sites.
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#42 Andreas Tolf Tolfsen on OperaWatir 1/2

March 30th, 2011 · · OperaWatir 5 comments - Tags:

Željko Filipin Andreas Tolf Tolfsen

Željko Filipin talks with Andreas Tolf Tolfsen about OperaWatir.

We are proud to be a part of Testing Podcast family. You can find audio podcasts on software testing there. All of them.

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Exam in Composition A To by Andreas himself.

Felipe Knorr Kuhn prepared most of the questions for this episode, but got sick just before recording, so we recorded without him.

Show notes:

  • 0:30 – Introduction.
  • 1:47 – About Željko.
  • 2:15 – About Andreas.
  • 2:35 – OperaWatir was announced way back in 2009 and released before Christmas 2010.
  • 4:40 – How long is Andreas at Opera Software?
  • 5:35 – Andreas studied music and musicology.
  • 6:40 – What does Andreas do at Opera Software?
  • 8:35 – About browsers and other software that Opera Software produces.
  • 13:55 – Testing at Opera Software.
  • 18:37 – Is valid HTML exception in the wild?
  • 19:10 – Andreas: “I can say from experience that 99,8% of all web pages out there are not valid according to HTML 4 spec.”
  • 20:27 – Is Andreas involved with Opera Mobile?
  • 21:12 – Our sites.
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