The Watir Podcast: Recent Episodes
Watir Team
Watir Contributor Titus Fortner describes Watir_Install as a gem that provides a scaffolding to get a project started.
Watir_Install: https://github.com/titusfortner/watir_install/tree/master/lib/watir_install
Support on Slack: https://seleniumhq.slack.com/
Twitter: @titusfortner Website: http://watirtight.com/
Watir veteran Chris McMahan joins the Watir Podcast to talk about learnings from test automation, including discussions about data management and using cucumber the right way.
Twitter: @chris_mcmahon Blog: http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/
Works at: SalesForce.Org http://www.salesforce.org/
Github: https://github.com/chrismcmahon
StickyMinds articles: https://www.stickyminds.com/search/content?search_api_views_fulltext=chris%20mcmahon&sort_bef_combine=created%20DESC
Our guest in this episode is Mark Barzilay to talk about this company's gem called Lapis_lazuli, which supports Watir and Cucumber for creating tests faster.
Company: https://spritecloud.com Lapis Lazuli: https://github.com/spriteCloud/lapis-lazuli Support:https://github.com/spriteCloud/lapis-lazuli/issues
Justin Ko, official Support Sherriff for the Watir team, talks about how he started using Watir, what kind of questions he sees, and why Watir Classic is his favorite (for now!).
Email: jkotest@gmail.com Blog: https://jkotests.wordpress.com/ E-Book: https://leanpub.com/watirways
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan joins the Watir Podcast to talk about his Page Object gem, other significant gems used for Acceptance Test Driven Development, his book Cucumber & Cheeze, and agile.
Twitter: @chzy
Works at: LeanDog http://www.leandog.com/organizational-design/
Gems: Page Objects https://github.com/cheezy/page-object Fig Newton https://github.com/cheezy/fig_newton Data Magic https://github.com/cheezy/page-object Service Mock https://github.com/cheezy/service_mock Terminal Emulator https://github.com/cheezy/te3270
Book: Cucumber & Cheeze https://leanpub.com/cucumber_and_cheese
Conference: Agile Days in Potsdam http://www.agiletestingdays.com/program-2016/
Justin Watts joins the Watir Podcast to talk about how he uses Watir in his test stack.
Github: https://github.com/tk8817 Email: jcommu@gmail.com Works at: http://www.loblawdigital.ca/
Various Ruby tools mentioned: Page Objects: https://github.com/cheezy/page-object WatirSome: https://github.com/p0deje/watirsome Watir_drops: https://github.com/titusfortner/watir_drops Allure: https://github.com/allure-framework/allure-core Cucumber: https://cucumber.io/ RSpec: http://rspec.info/ Xvfb: https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1/Xvfb.1.xhtml Fig Newton: https://github.com/cheezy/fig_newton Pry: http://pryrepl.org/ Watir Model: https://github.com/titusfortner/watir_model
Various container/deploy tools mentioned: Docker: https://www.docker.com Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com Ansible: https://www.ansible.com
Atlassian (bitbucket & Bamboo): https://www.atlassian.com/
Support sites for watir: Slack: https://seleniumhq.slack.com StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=watir Google Watir-General: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/watir-general
Watir Announcements
Watir 6 Release http://watir.github.io/watir-6-0/ http://watir.github.io/watir-6-faq/
Selenium 3 Release https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2016/10/13/selenium-3-0-out-now/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Selenium+%28The+Official+Selenium+Blog
ChromeDriver https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads
Test Automation Bazaar 2016 https://www.facebook.com/events/924324614311200/
Selenium Conference Twitter https://twitter.com/seleniumconf
Selenium Conference Watir Day 2011 https://watir.com/tag/watir-day-2011/
Dave McNulla asks Titus Fortner about Watir_drops page object gem. Titus also updates us on the upcoming Watir 6 release, including changes to expect from it.
Host: Dave McNulla Personal Website: dmcnulla.wordpress.com Twitter Handle: @dmcnulla
Guest: Titus Fortner Personal Website: watirtight.com/ Twitter Handle: @titusfortner
Watir_drops: https://github.com/titusfortner/watir_drops WatirSome: https://github.com/p0deje/watirsome Watirmark: https://github.com/convio/watirmark Capybara: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara
This is the Watir Podcast, Episode 61, with Dave McNulla and Alex Rodionov to talk about the WatirSome page object gem.
Alex' Twitter Handle: @p0deje Show links: https://github.com/p0deje/watirsome https://github.com/p0deje/watirsome/issues