Watir Podcast

#29 Bret Pettichord and Charley Baker on Past, Present and Future of Watir

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

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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