#36 Jarmo Pertman

August 17th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · Watir 3 comments - Tags: , ,

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Željko Filipin talks with Jarmo Pertman.

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

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A big thank you to Tiffany Fodor for editing the audio and for show notes.

Show notes:

  • 1:00 – Introductions
  • 4:50 – Jarmo’s introduction to Watir
  • 7:15 – Jarmo’s background
  • 10:08 – Jarmo’s blog – IT Really Matters
  • 10:50 – Blog highlights – Watir/RSpec
  • 13:08 – Most popular blog post – Debugging Watir’s click_no_wait method problems
  • 14:37 – Jarmo’s thesis – Web Applications’ User Interface Based Testing Automation
  • 16:20 – Watir frameworks
  • 18:10 – Ideas for future development and functionality in Watir: popups, screen shots
  • 23:08 – Other test automation tools
  • 23:40 – Watir versus Selenium
  • 27:50 – watir-webdriver
  • 31:12 – WatirSplash framework
  • 36:05 – Current Watir development activity
  • 38:15 – Jarmo’s other interests
  • 39:02 – Closing thoughts
  • 39:57 – Watir Stack Exchange site
  • 40:58 – Jarmo’s contact information
  • 41:40 – Zeljko’s contact information
  • 42:17 – Closing
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#35 Željko Filipin on Watir Stack Exchange Site

July 10th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · Watir 4 comments - Tags: , , ,

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Felipe Knorr Kuhn and Željko Filipin talk about Watir Stack Exchange Site.

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A big thank you to Tiffany Fodor for editing the audio and for show notes.

Show notes:

  • 0:15 – Introduction
  • 2:15 – Watir News
  • 8:45 – Stack Exchange Site
  • 10:50 – History – Stack Overflow
  • 12:50 – Creating Stack Exchange site for Watir
  • 13:25 – How Stack Exchange works
  • 15:45 – Achievements, badges and reputation
  • 17:50 – Stack Exchange versus Google Groups
  • 18:45 – Similar questions are displayed
  • 21:10 – Voting on questions and answers
  • 24:05 – Tags
  • 24:35 – Stack Exchange questions and answers as documentation
  • 27:15 – RSS feeds
  • 29:05 – Site acceptance
  • 34:35 – Stack Exchange Watir site focus
  • 41:45 – Help us create the Watir Stack Exchange community!
  • 43:25 – Replacing Watir Stack Overflow and Google Group sites with Stack Exchange
  • 46:45 – Marking questions as duplicates/related
  • 51:20 – Next phases – Commit and Beta
  • 52:55 – Ask and reply to your own questions
  • 54:55 – Formatting
  • 56:30 – Closing
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#34 Zhimin Zhan on TestWise

May 27th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · TestWise 8 comments - Tags: , , ,

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Alister Scott and Željko Filipin talk with Zhimin Zhan about TestWise.

It is a big day for Watir Podcast. Today it is 2 years old! :)

The music in the show is Sweet Legacy by Antiqcool.

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

A big thank you to Tiffany Fodor for editing the audio and for show notes.

Show notes:

  • 1:00 – Introduction
  • 2:00 – TestWise history
  • 5:09 – TestWise recorder
  • 7:11 – TestWise Licensing
  • 8:02 – Other AgileWay products
  • 10:22 – TestWise syntax
  • 11:53 – Number of TestWise users
  • 12:52 – More recorder discussion
  • 13:42 – TestWise future support (watir-webdriver)
  • 14:29 – Popups
  • 17:09 – More recorder discussion
  • 18:39 – LoadWise
  • 20:43 – TestWise roadmap
  • 21:21 – TestWise IDE
  • 23:12 – More about Zhimin
  • 24:30 – Zhimin’s closing thoughts
  • 25:34 – Contact info
  • 26:57 – Closing
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#33 Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij and UISpec

April 13th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · UISpec, Watij 6 comments - Tags: , , ,

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Željko Filipin talks with Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij.

The music in the show is Love Lies by Paper Lions. Chris McMahon played bass in Paper Lions in early Eighties.

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A big thank you to Tiffany Fodor for editing the audio and for show notes.

Show notes:

  • 0:00 – Welcome and Introductions
  • 1:35 – Watij History
  • 3:50 – TeamDev commercial Java COM bridge
  • 6:50 – Future of Watij and the Watij community
  • 8:07 – Plans for cross-browser support using JxBrowser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, possibly Chrome
  • 10:20 – WebDriver vs JxBrowser
  • 13:05 – More about the Watij community
  • 17:40 – BeanShell
  • 18:20 – Ruby DSL and JRuby
  • 19:53 – Answer to Karim Rayani’s question posted at watir-general
  • 20:55 – More about JxBrowser and cross-browser support
  • 24:10 – More about WebDriver with Watir and Selenium
  • 27:57 – WatiN
  • 28:50 – Watij acceptance in the test community
  • 29:48 – Watij licensing
  • 31:55 – Recorders
  • 34:55 – Automated test development
  • 37:10 – More about recorders
  • 39:56 – More about test development
  • 40:50 – Automated tests and Watij documentation
  • 44:32 – Porting tests
  • 48:09 – UISpec for iPhone
  • 54:05 – UI Bug
  • 55:50 – More about UISpec
  • 58:03 – Other automation projects
  • 1:00:20 – TripCase
  • 1:00:41 – Starter Step website and blog
  • 1:01:25 – Other Interests
  • 1:04:55 – Twitter, Facebook, etc.
  • 1:08:37 – Closing statements
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#32 Brent Strange

March 2nd, 2010 · Željko Filipin · Watir 7 comments - Tags: ,

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Gregg Yows and Željko Filipin talk with Brent Strange on his blog post Testing in 2009, a Year in Review.

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A big thank you to Tiffany Fodor for editing the audio, and to Alan Baird for show notes.

Show Notes:

  • 0:28 – News:

  • 3:43 – Brent introduction (works for GoDaddy)
  • 4:21 – Strange Beer
  • 5:14 – How Brent Uses Watir
  • 9:02 – Training folks on Watir
  • 11:08 – test navigate and execute
  • 11:52 – Explain this pattern: using Test::Unit, there aren’t any assertions in test and navigate
  • 14:53 – What tools do you use? (team foundation server, SciTE, .net windows)
  • 16:16 – Watir v Selenium (or Why Watir?) – cost, support for multiple browsers, community support, ruby easy to learn. Worry about Selenium in a frame (not really an issue).
  • 18:48 – Record and playback helpers – lack of record and playback on ruby, it’s not the way to go
  • 20:21 – Selenium community support as good as watir
  • 20:42 – SWEA – established relationship w/ developer
  • 21:16 – what’s with you’re url? (www.1qainsight:8080) – he’s cheap
  • 22:58 – QA Engineer vs Software Tester – is there a difference? (going through the backdoor with agile)
  • 27:00 – The Software Testing Club Magazine – No 1 –
    Do Loop Until 0 comics
  • 29:00 – Roo/Rasta – just using it for reading spreadsheets, but they are moving away from it
  • 31:38 – What do you do when you aren’t at a computer – website dev for charity, gym, hunt (deer and elk), sports, church (Arizona)
  • 33:22 – Favorite Podcasts? – James Bach, church sermons
  • 34:44 – Closing thoughts – keep up the good work
  • 35:46 – qainsight.net
  • 36:00 – twitter? who uses that?
  • 36:28 – Do Loop Until 0, we can forget about that
  • 37:18 – oh yeah…we forgot to introduce ourselves
  • 37:28 – Hi, I’m Greg Yows
  • 38:42 – Hi, I’m Zeljko
  • 40:18 – licensing
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