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?