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#31 Jari Bakken and Simon Stewart on Watir 2.0, Selenium and WebDriver, Celerity and HtmlUnit
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Željko Filipin, Jari Bakken and Simon Stewart
Željko Filipin talks with Jari Bakken and Simon Stewart about the connection between Webdriver and Watir 2.0 (currently named Watir-Webdriver on GitHub). Webdriver is a browser automation framework that is cross-platform, cross-browser and language independent; a project which Simon Stewart is the lead developer. It is becoming the core of Selenium.
The crucial piece of this, for Rubyists at least, is the selenium-webdriver gem (written by Jari Bakken) that brings the Ruby bindings to Webdriver. Add watir-webdriver (also written by Jari Bakken) on top of that and you have what people are calling watir 2.0, a watir style-api with a webdriver core.
Webdriver related projects mentioned:
Jari Bakken’s projects:
- Celerity
- selenium-webdriver gem, docs
- watir-webdriver, see also differences between Watir 1.x and Watir-Webdriver gem (aka Watir 2.0)
Podcast Timeline:
- 00:00 – Jarib introduction
- 01:13 – Simon introduction
- 01:46 – Webdriver history
- 03:22 – What about Safari?
- 04:19 – Is Webdriver part of Selenium?
- 05:41 – How did Jari get involved with Webdriver?
- 07:16 – Ruby bindings for SeleniumWebdriver gem
- 07:45 – Remote Webdriver
- 09:30 – WebDriver and HTML Unit
- 11:04 – HTML Unit, Webdriver, Celerity – are they separate?
- 12:00 – Could you run Webdriver headless like Celerity?
- 13:39 – Does every Webdriver browser driver have a maintainer?
- 15:41 – Is ChromeDriver (by Sai) part of Webdriver?
- 16:52 – Jari comments on additions to Watir 1.6.5
- 18:41 – Status of Watir on Ruby 1.9
- 19:55 – Jari talks about Watir 2.0
- 22:15 – How complete is Watir 2.0?
- 23:33 – Watir Unit tests and WatirSpec
- 26:10 – How you can help with Webdriver
- 28:00 – How you the projects mentioned
Further reading after listening to the podcast: Alan Baird and Jari Bakken on watir-webdriver.
