Gregg Yows and Željko Filipin talk with Jim Knowlton.

• 0:00 – Music.
• 1:00 – Introduction.
• 4:11 – Testing security applications with Ruby and Watir.
• 5:32 – Using IRB and Watir to assist exploratory testing of web applications.
• 6:40 – What is exploratory testing?
• 9:49 – Using IRB and Watir in exploratory testing session to check if HTML code of the page has comments and what is in them.
• 11:17 – Is there browser.comments method in Watir?
• 11:54 – The difference between ad hoc and exploratory testing.
• 14:42 – What percentage of exploratory vs. manual vs. automated is Jim doing?
• 15:41 – Are they doing Agile development?
• 16:52 – How are they delivering scripts to testers?
• 19:04 – What tool do they use for version control?
• 20:18 – Has the management been receptive to exploratory testing?
• 22:13 – The presentation on web security testing with Ruby and Watir.
• 25:59 – A big thank you to Adam Goucher for suggesting Jim for the podcast.
• 26:11 – How are they managing note taking in exploratory sessions?
• 28:33 – An example of security testing with Watir.
• 31:35 – What does Jim do when he is not near a computer and stuff like that.
• 33:45 – Where people can find us on the tubes?
• 35:20 – You can donate to Watir at watir.com.
• 36:27 – Music.

Music in the podcast is Diggin Out by Chad Fowler.

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