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.
- 1:30 – About Dave.
- 3:10 – How did he get into computers?
- 5:00 – How did he get into automation, Ruby and Watir?
- 6:50 – Did he use other programming languages?
- 7:30 – Does he like Ruby? Would he change anything in Ruby or Watir?
- 8:40 – Does he like Ruby more or less than other languages?
- 10:10 – Is there anything specific he likes about testing?
- 11:40 – “Being the worst” from The Passionate Programmer.
- 12:50 – A few words about the application he is testing (HP Service Manager).
- 15:10 – Do they test software that is not web application?
- 16:35 – If the desktop application development stared now, would it cost a lot to make it testable?
- 18:20 – Did he face any problems with testing web application? (Pop-ups get mentioned. Surprised?)
- 20:05 – Do they test only on Windows?
- 20:25 – His contribution to Watir community.
- 21:50 – Size of development and test teams at his company.
- 22:45 – How many people use Watir in his team?
- 23:10 – Favorite IDE/editor?
- 24:20- IRB.
- 25:05 – Closing.
