The Watir Podcast

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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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