Bret Pettichord (Watir Lead Developer), Charley Baker (Watir Lead Developer) and Željko Filipin (Watir Community Manager) talk about the past, the present and the future of Watir.

• 0:00 – music
• 1:00 – introduction
• 2:11 – Bret on what is new in Watir 1.6.5
• 2:54 – downloads
  • gemcutter.org/gems/watir
  • gemcutter.org/gems/firewatir
  • gemcutter.org/gems/commonwatir
  • rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=104
• 5:15 – in the year since the last release of Watir (1.6.2) more people contributed to 1.6.5 than ever before, thanks to GitHub
• 7:40 – all Watir drivers now at watir.com
• 9:29 – Charley on releasing Watir 1.6.5
• 12:47 – move more gems in Watir, or separate all gems?
• 17:00 – Watir 2.0
• 20:50 – WatirSpec, results + todo (793 examples, 59 failures)
• 22:29 – Celerity
• 24:16 – FFI extension for Ruby
• 30:10 – WatiN, Watij
• 32:31 – Bret: “Watin is in the wrong language.”
• 36:16 – Bret: “Selenium … does not use any special facilities from any language that it works in, and therefore it is kinda clumsy in most of them.”
• 36:54 – summary of Watir 1.6.5
• 38:53 – AWTA 2010
• 39:50 – Watir 1.7 (pop ups, cookies)
• 46:08 – API changes in Watir 2.0 (hashes, 0-based indexing)
• 49:18 – early days of Watir
• 54:15 – closing
• 55:19 – you can donate to Watir at watir.com
• 55:37 – our sites
• 56:48 – music

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Easy to Love by Chris McMahon.

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