Atomic Spin :: Elements of Software

Experiences using Watir and Atomic Object’s upcoming open source contributions to simplify it generate excitement at AWTA.

WATIR (pronounced “water”) made a big splash - or maybe it was a cannonball - at the Sixth Annual Austin Workshop on Test Automation ( AWTA ). Held January 7 – 9, 2005, the workshop attracted top developers and testers in the open source arena. The workshop’s goals were to review and contribute to open-source tools for the functional testing of web-based applications. Although the event wasn’t intended to be focused so directly on Watir, it clearly moved in that direction.

At a time when many XP people thought they could do without a tester, Lisa Crispin wrote the book on it.

An Interview with Lisa Crispin by Magnus Ljadas, Citerus AB

Lisa Crispin is a tester with a mission – to explore best practices for agile testing – as she calls it. At a time when many XP people thought they could do without a tester, she wrote the book Testing Extreme Programming with co-author Tip House. Today, she says, developers are becoming increasingly more interested in testing. At her presentation about test-driven development at JAOO this year, the majority of the audience consisted of developers.