Željko Filipin talks with Andreas Tolf Tolfsen about OperaWatir.

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Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Exam in Composition A To by Andreas himself.

Felipe Knorr Kuhn prepared most of the questions for this episode, but got sick just before recording, so we recorded without him.

Show notes:

• 0:30 – Introduction.
• 1:25 – On testing at Opera Software.
• 2:31 – See you at Selenium Conference and viaqa
• 3:01 – Andreas is involved in other free software/open source projects, like WebC.
• 5:20 – Why Opera browser has low market share on desktop?
• 6:20 – A few nice features of Opera browser.
• 7:30 – The current status of OperaWatir and OperaDriver.
• 11:28 – Watir is usually used to test web applications, but at Opera Software it is used to test browsers.
• 12:15 – Watir 2.0 API and WatirSpec.
• 15:40 – The future of OperaWatir and OperaDriver.
• 17:57 – OperaWatir is licensed under BSD license.
• 18:28 – OperaWatir community: web site, operawatir-users mailing list, rubygems.org/gems/operawatir.
• 22:05 – A few words about beer and music.
• 24:24 – What does Andreas do when he is not near a computer?
• 25:39 – Closing thoughts: “I am so surprised that the web actually works. And it works surprisingly well.”
• 27:40 – Our sites.

Željko Filipin talks with Andreas Tolf Tolfsen about OperaWatir.

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

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Exam in Composition A To by Andreas himself.

Felipe Knorr Kuhn prepared most of the questions for this episode, but got sick just before recording, so we recorded without him.

Show notes:

• 0:30 – Introduction.
• 1:47 – About Željko.
• 2:15 – About Andreas.
• 2:35 – OperaWatir was announced way back in 2009 and released before Christmas 2010.
• 4:40 – How long is Andreas at Opera Software?
• 5:35 – Andreas studied music and musicology.
• 6:40 – What does Andreas do at Opera Software?
• 8:35 – About browsers and other software that Opera Software produces.
• 13:55 – Testing at Opera Software.
• 18:37 – Is valid HTML exception in the wild?
• 19:10 – Andreas: “I can say from experience that 99,8% of all web pages out there are not valid according to HTML 4 spec.”
• 20:27 – Is Andreas involved with Opera Mobile?
• 21:12 – Our sites.

From AWTA 2009 Sunday

Željko Filipin talks with Deniz Türkoglu of Opera Software about AWTA 2009 and OperaWatir.

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Cosmic Cowboy by Gregg Yows.