Questions
Alister Scott, Bret Pettichord, Alan Baird, Charley Baker, Jari Bakken and Rich Downie contributed to questions, mostly at #watir IRC channel. If you have a question or six, leave a comment.
Introduction
- Something about you.
- Where do you live?
- How did you get into:
- computers (your first computer),
- software testing,
- automation/Watir/Ruby.
- Have you used other programming languages?
- If so how do you think it compares with Ruby?
- Why do you like testing?
- What is that you like the most about testing?
- A little about the application you are testing. (Jari Bakken)
- How big are development and test teams at your company?
- Whick editor/IDE are you using for writing Watir/Ruby code?
- Which OS are you using?
Watir
- When did you start using Watir? (Bret Pettichord)
- What have been using Watir for? (Bret Pettichord) Regression, smoke, unit tests… (Alan Baird)
- What do you like about Watir? (Bret Pettichord)
- What don’t you like about Watir? (Bret Pettichord)
- What frameworks have you been using with Watir? Test::Unit, RSpec, WET… (Alan Baird)
- What would you like to see in future versions of Watir?
- Have you used other flavours of Watir? (Firewatir, Safariwatir, Watij, Watin…)
- Have you used other testing tools, open or closed source (Selenium…)? (Rich Downie)
- If so how do you think it compares with Watir? (Rich Downie)
- Do other people use your Watir code? (Bret Pettichord)
- Have you built any tools of your own? (Bret Pettichord)
- How do you help out with Watir? (Bret Pettichord)
- Any metric you find relevant to share (time to run tests, number of tests or assertions, lines of code, functionality covered…)?
For Watir flavours
- How would you compare your flavour of Watir with the Ruby one?
- What is the current status of your project? (Charlie Baker)
- What is the roadmap? (Charlie Baker)
- How big is community for your tool?
- Do you have documentation?
- How many developers are working on the tool?
- Do you know how many users/downloads/installations you have?
- Would you (and how) convince me to switch to your tool?
Closing
- Would you share with us interesting/funny testing/bug hunt story?
- What do you like to do beside testing?
- Do you listen to podcasts?
- Any closing thoughts? Something you would like to say to listeners?
- Do you have a web site/twitter account?
