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#36 Jarmo Pertman

August 17th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · Watir 3 comments - Tags: , ,

Željko Filipin Jarmo Pertman

Željko Filipin talks with Jarmo Pertman.

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

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

Show notes:

  • 1:00 – Introductions
  • 4:50 – Jarmo’s introduction to Watir
  • 7:15 – Jarmo’s background
  • 10:08 – Jarmo’s blog – IT Really Matters
  • 10:50 – Blog highlights – Watir/RSpec
  • 13:08 – Most popular blog post – Debugging Watir’s click_no_wait method problems
  • 14:37 – Jarmo’s thesis – Web Applications’ User Interface Based Testing Automation
  • 16:20 – Watir frameworks
  • 18:10 – Ideas for future development and functionality in Watir: popups, screen shots
  • 23:08 – Other test automation tools
  • 23:40 – Watir versus Selenium
  • 27:50 – watir-webdriver
  • 31:12 – WatirSplash framework
  • 36:05 – Current Watir development activity
  • 38:15 – Jarmo’s other interests
  • 39:02 – Closing thoughts
  • 39:57 – Watir Stack Exchange site
  • 40:58 – Jarmo’s contact information
  • 41:40 – Zeljko’s contact information
  • 42:17 – Closing
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#35 Željko Filipin on Watir Stack Exchange Site

July 10th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · Watir 4 comments - Tags: , , ,

Felipe Knorr Kuhn Željko Filipin

Felipe Knorr Kuhn and Željko Filipin talk about Watir Stack Exchange Site.

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:

  • 0:15 – Introduction
  • 2:15 – Watir News
  • 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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#34 Zhimin Zhan on TestWise

May 27th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · TestWise 8 comments - Tags: , , ,

Alister Scott Željko Filipin Zhimin Zhan

Alister Scott and Željko Filipin talk with Zhimin Zhan about TestWise.

It is a big day for Watir Podcast. Today it is 2 years old! :)

The music in the show is Sweet Legacy by Antiqcool.

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:

  • 1:00 – Introduction
  • 2:00 – TestWise history
  • 5:09 – TestWise recorder
  • 7:11 – TestWise Licensing
  • 8:02 – Other AgileWay products
  • 10:22 – TestWise syntax
  • 11:53 – Number of TestWise users
  • 12:52 – More recorder discussion
  • 13:42 – TestWise future support (watir-webdriver)
  • 14:29 – Popups
  • 17:09 – More recorder discussion
  • 18:39 – LoadWise
  • 20:43 – TestWise roadmap
  • 21:21 – TestWise IDE
  • 23:12 – More about Zhimin
  • 24:30 – Zhimin’s closing thoughts
  • 25:34 – Contact info
  • 26:57 – Closing
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#33 Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij and UISpec

April 13th, 2010 · Željko Filipin · UISpec, Watij 6 comments - Tags: , , ,

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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#30 Jim Knowlton on Using Watir for Exploratory Testing

December 16th, 2009 · Željko Filipin · Watir One comment - Tags: , , ,

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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