[wtr-general] Re: Is Watir being used by your developers?

2012-02-08 Thread Dan Claudiu Pop
Unfortunately, the only way to involve developers, in my personal opinion is to have ATDD as an extension to TDD. A very good reference is http://specificationbyexample.com/ book. And man i love this post :) http://watirmelon.com/2012/01/31/introducing-the-software-testing-ice-cream-cone/ To be

[wtr-general] Re: Is Watir being used by your developers?

2012-02-08 Thread Dave McNulla
@George, In my last job Watir was used a lot. The developers on the GUI preferred to use java-based webdriver. In my current job, I was using a Ruby/Mechanize class file that some developers used because they could interact with it (in IRB). If you think they won't embrace it, you should find

[wtr-general] Re: Is Watir being used by your developers?

2012-02-07 Thread hillary
Not yet, but I think they're going to try too. I'm training our QA on watir and invited the developers as optional participants. A couple of them saw it as a good way to write unit tests to test client side (jquery, ajax, javascript) code that won't be covered by their unitest framework. It's a