Gregg Yows and Željko Filipin talk with Brent Strange on his blog post Testing in 2009, a Year in Review.
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Show Notes:
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0:28 – News:
- Watir Podcast is a member of Testing Podcast
- Jarmo Pertman’s blog IT Really Matters added to Watir Blogs page
- Watir Wiki has been updated, please give us your feedback
- Jari Bakken just released pre-release of Watir-Webdriver (install instructions at Watir on WebDriver)
- Donate to Watir!
- Brent Strange – how strange is that
- 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
