Tag: Chris McMahon

#33 Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij and UISpec

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.

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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

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

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.

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