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Podcast #54

May 9th, 2013 · Željko Filipin · Selenium, Watir, Watir-Webdriver, Webdriver One comment - Tags: Adam Goucher, Alister Scott, Chris McMahon, Dave McNulla, David Burns, Jeff Morgan, Jim Evans, Justin Ko, Llewellyn Falco, Page Objects, Sauce Labs, selenium, Simon Stewart, Testing Bot, Watir, Watir-Webdriver, Željko Filipin

Dave McNulla Zeljko Filipin

Dave McNulla and Zeljko Filipin discuss recent articles written about Watir, Watir-Webdriver, testing frameworks, and testing services. Here are the links to the articles and blog posts:

Books

Ruby 2 Pick Ax
Cucumber Recipes
Reader Score (I mistated Watirbook score on the podcast by 10x)
- Homebrewer’s Guide = 2015 readers
- Cheese & Cucumber = 369 readers

Articles & Screencasts

Case Against Record & Playback – Adam Goucher
Checking for Javascript Errors - Alister Scott
Testing Contradictions – Alister Scott
Context Driven Testing – Cem Kaner
Open Browser Test Automation at Wikimedia - Chris McMahon
Using Cucumber to Adopt a Puppy – Jeff Cheezy Morgan
Screencast ‘Adopting Puppies’ - Jeff Cheezy Morgan
Screencast ‘Writing Custom RSpec Matchers’ - Jeff Cheezy Morgan
Screencast ‘Navigational Features of Page Objects’ - Jeff Cheezy Morgan
Continuous Integration with Jenkins – Dave McNulla
Server & Log Monitoring with Greylog2 – Dave McNulla
Could CSS3 Be Making Sites That Are Not Testable – David Burns
Build Test and Deploy Firefox OS Apps – David Burns
Not Providing HTML Page is Bogus – Jim Evans
Seeing Info Messages In the Log – Jim Evans
Finding a Parent Element – Justin Ko
Get the CSS Class Name – Justin Ko
Improving Performance on Tables – Justin Ko
Handling Repeated Blocks of Elements – Justin Ko
Troubleshooting the Unknown Element – Justin Ko
Adding a Watir Reference Section – Justin Ko
Getting a Checkbox by Adjacent Text – Just Ko
Why Write a Book on Watir – Justin Ko
Passing Watir Elements to Execute Script - Justin Ko
Parts to Each Watir Instruction (Explained) - Justin Ko
Directions Analogy for Locator Strategies - Justin Ko
List of Valid Watir Webdriver Locators - Justin Ko
Sauce for the Mac – Sauce Labs
Announcing Sauce Free Unlimited Test Accounts for OSS – Sauce Labs
Getting the Most out of Selenium with Cloudbees and Sauce Labs - Sauce Labs
Announcing Appium on Sauce Native Hybrid IOS – Sauce Labs
Selenium Conference - Selenium
Source Control – Selenium
The Future of Firefox support – let’s discuss - Selenium Groups
Timeline for EOL of Firefox 3.x support - Selenium Groups
Clue – Simon Stewart
Talk to Teddy - Simon Stewart
Help Me Help You - Simon Stewart
Chrome Profiles – Zeljko Filipin
Testing Mediawiki - Zeljko Filipin
Zagreb Meeting - Zeljko Filipin
Zero Day and Trojan Horse - Zeljko Filipin
Finally a Ghost Driver – Ivan De Marino
Travis CI Selenium Testing – Testing Bot

Software & Library Updates

The opening and closing music is Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod (Genre: Pop, Instruments: Guitar, Bass, Kit, ISRC: USUAN1100482, 2008 Kevin MacLeod)

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#38 Jeff Lusenhop on Janova 2/3

November 2nd, 2010 · Željko Filipin · Watir 7 comments - Tags: Charley Baker, Chris McMahon, Jeff Lusenhop, Paper Lions, Skype

Charley Baker Željko Filipin Jeff Lusenhop

Charley Baker and Željko Filipin talk with Jeff Lusenhop on Janova (part 2 of 3).

Thanks to Jarmo Pertman, Ethan and Felipe Knorr Kuhn for questions.

The music in the show is Female Advantages by Paper Lions. Chris McMahon played bass in Paper Lions in early Eighties.

We are proud to be a part of Testing Podcast family. You can find audio podcasts on software testing there. All of them.

Show notes:

1:00 – Series introduction.
1:18 – Episode introduction.
1:30 – Importing existing Watir tests.
2:19 – What is the roadmap for Janova? Security, reporting, internationalization…
5:62 – Janova’s building blocks. Ruby, Watir, Ruby on Rails, Heroku, RabbitMQ, Amazon EC2…
9:21 – How a test is created? Application, environment, feature, scenario, step, queue, batch…
15:22 – What is Janova’s relationship with open source communities?
17:49 – Questions from the listeners: Jarmo Pertman, Felipe Knorr Khun and Ethan.
18:03 – Are there plans for installing Janova behind the company firewall?

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#33 Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij and UISpec

April 13th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · UISpec, Watij 8 comments - Tags: Brian Knorr, Chris McMahon, Jake Dempsey, Paper Lions, Skype

Željko Filipin Jake Dempsey Brian Knorr

Željko Filipin talks with Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij.

The music in the show is Love Lies by Paper Lions. Chris McMahon played bass in Paper Lions in early Eighties.

We are proud to be a part of Testing Podcast family. You can find audio podcasts on software testing there. All of them.

A big thank you to Tiffany Fodor for editing the audio and for show notes.

Show notes:

0:00 – Welcome and Introductions
1:35 – Watij History
3:50 – TeamDev commercial Java COM bridge
6:50 – Future of Watij and the Watij community
8:07 – Plans for cross-browser support using JxBrowser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, possibly Chrome
10:20 – WebDriver vs JxBrowser
13:05 – More about the Watij community
17:40 – BeanShell
18:20 – Ruby DSL and JRuby
19:53 – Answer to Karim Rayani’s question posted at watir-general
20:55 – More about JxBrowser and cross-browser support
24:10 – More about WebDriver with Watir and Selenium
27:57 – WatiN
28:50 – Watij acceptance in the test community
29:48 – Watij licensing
31:55 – Recorders
34:55 – Automated test development
37:10 – More about recorders
39:56 – More about test development
40:50 – Automated tests and Watij documentation
44:32 – Porting tests
48:09 – UISpec for iPhone
54:05 – UI Bug
55:50 – More about UISpec
58:03 – Other automation projects
1:00:20 – TripCase
1:00:41 – Starter Step website and blog
1:01:25 – Other Interests
1:04:55 – Twitter, Facebook, etc.
1:08:37 – Closing statements

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

December 5th, 2009 · Željko Filipin · Watir 9 comments - Tags: Bret Pettichord, Charley Baker, Chris McMahon, Skype

Bret Pettichord Charley Baker Željko Filipin

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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#38 Jeff Lusenhop on Janova 2/3

#33 Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij and UISpec

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

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