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
7 Responses to “#32 Brent Strange”
on March 2nd, 2010 at 10:47 pm #
RT @zeljkofilipin: Published #WatirPodcast #32: Brent Strange http://bit.ly/aklyFZ
on March 3rd, 2010 at 1:40 am #
RT @skim: RT @zeljkofilipin: Published #WatirPodcast #32: Brent Strange http://bit.ly/aklyFZ
here, i created a bit.ly link for Brent Strange’s blog
http://bit.ly/brentstrangeblog
Thanks Steve, that URL looks nice.
Željko, your pickiness of URLs could lead smart ‘clickers’ to not click because of the security and virus danger within!
For example, watch the video here:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/24/video-symantec-shows-the-danger-of-shortened-twitter-links/
The fact that the short URL obfuscates where the intended clicker is going is not a good thing. So, I’ve changed my mind, I have a long URL not to be “cheap” but to provide security to my readers!
Brent, you are correct, bit.ly and similar links can lead to dangerous places.
Just to make it clear, I am not suggesting that people use bit.ly or similar sites to create nice URLs, just to make sure URLs on their sites are nice.
on July 13th, 2010 at 1:29 pm #
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