http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ by Bret Pettichord en-us bret@pettichord.com 2009-06-18T14:47:17-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2009_06.html As I've announced elsewhere earlier this month, Pete Dignan and I are shutting down WatirCraft LLC. We've each decided to go our separate ways. For several months now Pete has been focussing his attentions on his other business, ProtoTest. Next... 295@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2009-06-18T14:47:17-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2009_06.html Over the past year, I've been working on a startup software business. We're in the process of shutting it down now, actually, but that's a different story. During the past year, I've learned a lot about startups and business models.... 294@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2009-06-15T16:05:39-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2009_04.html When I started working on Watir, I was pushing a vision for automated testing. This vision still motivates my work with Watir. A couple of years ago, Brian Marick told me open-source developers should share their vision and let the... 293@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ Automation 2009-04-24T11:37:23-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2009_03.html Today, someone wrote me. They need to do a Watir Demo and needed a good test app to use. Did I have something they could use? Of course I do. We've been using the "Depot" test application for some time... 292@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2009-03-03T16:20:16-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2009_02.html It still seems much too early to talk about it. I've been developing a testing framework for Watir users. We have one customer and some friends have been using it. It feels like a small twig fire that needs tending.... 291@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2009-02-06T11:19:00-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2009_01.html Last weekend I hosted the Eight Austin Workshop on Test Automation. We have a better record of this workshop than any previous. Notes from most of the sessions were recorded on our wiki, which also has links to photos, blog... 290@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ AWTA 2009-01-25T17:47:38-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_12.html In January, Charley Baker, Pete Dignan and I will be hosting the eighth Austin Workshop on Test Automation. We’ve explored some aspects of Watir at past workshops, but this will be the first dedicated to it. Specifically, we seek to... 289@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ AWTA 2008-12-04T14:59:08-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_11.html Last week we released Watir 1.6.2. This is a big release with a lot of new features and fixes, but the focus has been integrating the Watir and FireWatir code bases and improving our support for Firefox. Earlier this year... 288@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2008-11-11T14:56:47-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_10.html Many Watir users want to learn more Ruby so that they can build out their frameworks and libraries. When we created Watir, we knew that testers needed an easy-to-use full-featured language for their automation. Ruby allows most testers to quickly... 287@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ Ruby 2008-10-17T16:48:00-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_10.html I've been busy lately working on the next release of Watir, coming out later this month. It will be a combined Watir/FireWatir release. I discuss this work in detail in this podcast. Our work on supporting Firefox is drawing contributors... 286@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ Watir 2008-10-01T09:54:40-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_08.html Agile methods allow your team to get feedback regarding the software you are building. That’s the point. The feedback works on several levels. Pair programming gives developers instant feedback on their code. Stories represent units of work where testers and... 285@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ Agile 2008-08-16T17:51:40-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_08.html We have a released a new version of FireWatir. This includes some fixes related to Firefox 3. It also marks the merger of the FireWatir and Watir projects. Unlike Watir, FireWatir works on Windows, Mac and Linux. To install: "gem... 284@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2008-08-15T17:27:27-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_07.html This begins a series of short essays on Agile development. I am writing these for several reasons. We are using many Agile methods in the development of Watir. We are using such methods as continuous integration and emergent architecture... 283@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2008-07-29T14:57:27-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_07.html Yesterday, I spent yet another evening researching private blogging options. Several months ago, I started a private blog to share with the people who are helping us launch WatirCraft. I've had these before at previous companies. I think I... 282@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2008-07-26T08:41:28-06:00 http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/archives/2008_07.html Last week I set up Watir so that its unit tests are run automatically whenever any changes are committed (“checked in”) to the development repository. This is done with Cruise Control, a tool which watches repositories, runs tests and... 281@http://www.io.com/~wazmo/blog/ 2008-07-15T01:22:02-06:00