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#30 Jim Knowlton on Using Watir for Exploratory Testing

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Gregg Yows Željko Filipin Jim Knowlton

Gregg Yows and Željko Filipin talk with Jim Knowlton.

  • 0:00 – Music.
  • 1:00 – Introduction.
  • 4:11 – Testing security applications with Ruby and Watir.
  • 5:32 – Using IRB and Watir to assist exploratory testing of web applications.
  • 6:40 – What is exploratory testing?
  • 9:49 – Using IRB and Watir in exploratory testing session to check if HTML code of the page has comments and what is in them.
  • 11:17 – Is there browser.comments method in Watir?
  • 11:54 – The difference between ad hoc and exploratory testing.
  • 14:42 – What percentage of exploratory vs. manual vs. automated is Jim doing?
  • 15:41 – Are they doing Agile development?
  • 16:52 – How are they delivering scripts to testers?
  • 19:04 – What tool do they use for version control?
  • 20:18 – Has the management been receptive to exploratory testing?
  • 22:13 – The presentation on web security testing with Ruby and Watir.
  • 25:59 – A big thank you to Adam Goucher for suggesting Jim for the podcast.
  • 26:11 – How are they managing note taking in exploratory sessions?
  • 28:33 – An example of security testing with Watir.
  • 31:35 – What does Jim do when he is not near a computer and stuff like that.
  • 33:45 – Where people can find us on the tubes?
  • 35:20 – You can donate to Watir at watir.com.
  • 36:27 – Music.

Music in the podcast is Diggin Out by Chad Fowler.

 
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Tags: Chad Fowler, Gregg Yows, Jim Knowlton, Skype
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#29 Bret Pettichord and Charley Baker on Past, Present and Future of Watir

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

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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Tags: Bret Pettichord, Charley Baker, Chris McMahon, Skype
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#28 Tom Copeland on SafariWatir

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Charley Baker Željko Filipin Tom Copeland

Charley Baker and Željko Filipin talk with Tom Copeland (programmer for InfoEther, lead developer of SafariWatir, system administrator of RubyForge.org) about SafariWatir, watirspec, RubyForge.org, Gemcutter, GitHub, other podcasts Tom recorded, how to raise 7 kids…

While we were recording the podcast Tom released SafariWatir 0.3.7. While he is typing, you can hear Oh So Fabulous song in the background.

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is All My Little Words. Both songs are by Chad Fowler.

 
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Tags: Chad Fowler, Charley Baker, Skype, Tom Copeland
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#7 Bret Pettichord on FireWatir

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Željko Filipin Bret Pettichord

Željko Filipin talks with Bret Pettichord (CTO, WatirCraft LLC; Lead Developer, Watir) about merging Watir and FireWatir.

Music at the beginning and the end is Hear that guitar ring from James Rogers Blues Band, selected by Željko.

 
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Tags: Bret Pettichord, James Rogers Blues Band, Skype, WatirCraft
Posted in FireWatir, Watir | 1 Comment »

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