#41 Dave McNulla 2/2

Felipe Knorr Kuhn Željko Filipin Dave McNulla

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Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is by George Sanders from Portland, Oregon.

Show notes:

0:40 – Introduction.
1:07 – Which OS does he prefer?
4:16 – Is there anything in Watir he would like to be improved or changed?
5:23 – Did he use any other tool for testing web applications?
6:17 – Does he have his own framework for running Watir tests?
6:40 – Fixtures for Watir.
8:17 – Felipe does not like DSLs.
10:02 – What language is the web application written in?
11:26 – What does he do when he is not at a computer? Missions, Spurs…
12:02 – Does he listen to podcasts?
12:49 – Closing thoughts.
13:39 – It would be nice if people asking for Watir support treat it like a bug report.
14:45 – He does not have the time to maintain a blog, but he is @dmcnulla on Twitter.
17:02 – He is not even close to our record in the number of kids (and Felipe and I are even further away).
18:20 – Closing.
18:58 – A few words about conferences.
19:55 – A few words in Portuguese and Croatian.

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#40 Dave McNulla 1/2

Felipe Knorr Kuhn Željko Filipin Dave McNulla

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Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is by George Sanders from Portland, Oregon.

Show notes:

0:40 – Introduction.
1:30 – About Dave.
3:10 – How did he get into computers?
5:00 – How did he get into automation, Ruby and Watir?
6:50 – Did he use other programming languages?
7:30 – Does he like Ruby? Would he change anything in Ruby or Watir?
8:40 – Does he like Ruby more or less than other languages?
10:10 – Is there anything specific he likes about testing?
11:40 – “Being the worst” from The Passionate Programmer.
12:50 – A few words about the application he is testing (HP Service Manager).
15:10 – Do they test software that is not web application?
16:35 – If the desktop application development stared now, would it cost a lot to make it testable?
18:20 – Did he face any problems with testing web application? (Pop-ups get mentioned. Surprised?)
20:05 – Do they test only on Windows?
20:25 – His contribution to Watir community.
21:50 – Size of development and test teams at his company.
22:45 – How many people use Watir in his team?
23:10 – Favorite IDE/editor?
24:20- IRB.
25:05 – Closing.

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Felipe Knorr Kuhn Željko Filipin

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

Show notes:

0:15 – Introduction
2:15 – Watir News
- 2:15 – Watir Podcast Team
- 3:50 – Watir Stack Overflow ad
- 5:00 – Watir Podcast is 2 years old!
- 5:20 – Chrome Watir support has been removed from Watir
- 5:55 – Watir-Webdriver
- 7:15 – Zeljko’s blog post on Webdriver installation
- 7:35 – Google Pacman Watir script
8:45 – Stack Exchange Site
10:50 – History – Stack Overflow
12:50 – Creating Stack Exchange site for Watir
13:25 – How Stack Exchange works
15:45 – Achievements, badges and reputation
17:50 – Stack Exchange versus Google Groups
18:45 – Similar questions are displayed
21:10 – Voting on questions and answers
24:05 – Tags
24:35 – Stack Exchange questions and answers as documentation
27:15 – RSS feeds
29:05 – Site acceptance
34:35 – Stack Exchange Watir site focus
41:45 – Help us create the Watir Stack Exchange community!
43:25 – Replacing Watir Stack Overflow and Google Group sites with Stack Exchange
46:45 – Marking questions as duplicates/related
51:20 – Next phases – Commit and Beta
52:55 – Ask and reply to your own questions
54:55 – Formatting
56:30 – Closing

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