Chuck Van der Linden and Dave McNulla talk briefly about the Test Automation Bazaar, what we liked about the conference, and the highlights.
Show notes: To be added later
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Category: Watir
Željko Filipin talks with Jarmo Pertman about the recent release of Watir 2.0.
This episode is sponsored by Watir book! If you would like to sponsor an episode, let me know.
Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is by George Sanders from Portland, Oregon.
We are proud to be a part of Testing Podcast family. You can find audio podcasts on software testing there. All of them.
Show notes:
- 1:00 – Introduction.
- 1:38 – Jarmo’s gems: RAutomation and WatirSplash.
- 2:44 – Watir 2.0: zero based indexing, firewatir is deprecated, locators for collections, default zero based locators.
- 9:48 – Future plans: decrease incompatibilities between watir and watir-webdriver gems even further with the help of watirspec gem.
- 11:12 – Our sites.
- 12:15 – Jarmo says a few words in Estonian.
Bret Pettichord‘s Opening Keynote at Selenium Conference 2011.
This is the first time I have published a podcast that I did not record, but this is one of the best talks I have heard so far and I thought it should be published here.
I would like to thank Michael Larsen for producing the podcast. Show notes are at Michael Larsen’s Podcasts page and Bret’s blog post A Ninja Strike to the Brain. Bret’s blog post also has video version of the talk.
Željko Filipin talks with Tim Koopmans of Altentee about WatirGrid and Gridinit.
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 by George Sanders from Portland, Oregon.
Show notes:
- 0:30 – Introduction.
- 1:00 – About Tim.
- 2:00 – Can Watir be used for load testing?
- 3:00 – WatirGrid.
- 5:53 – Gridinit.
- 7:00 – Supported browsers and Watir gems.
- 7:42 – Other tools it supports.
- 11:52 – Competition.
- 13:07 – Closing thoughts.
- 14:15 – Links to our sites.
Felipe Knorr Kuhn and Željko Filipin talk with Dave McNulla.
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Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is by George Sanders from Portland, Oregon.
Show notes:
- 0:40 – Introduction.
- 1:07 – Which OS does he prefer?
- 4:16 – Is there anything in Watir he would like to be improved or changed?
- 5:23 – Did he use any other tool for testing web applications?
- 6:17 – Does he have his own framework for running Watir tests?
- 6:40 – Fixtures for Watir.
- 8:17 – Felipe does not like DSLs.
- 10:02 – What language is the web application written in?
- 11:26 – What does he do when he is not at a computer? Missions, Spurs…
- 12:02 – Does he listen to podcasts?
- 12:49 – Closing thoughts.
- 13:39 – It would be nice if people asking for Watir support treat it like a bug report.
- 14:45 – He does not have the time to maintain a blog, but he is @dmcnulla on Twitter.
- 17:02 – He is not even close to our record in the number of kids (and Felipe and I are even further away).
- 18:20 – Closing.
- 18:58 – A few words about conferences.
- 19:55 – A few words in Portuguese and Croatian.
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