I am just wrapping up a new release of this Time Tracking software for one of our clients. This was something AO had originally developed, and was now being enhanced. The “testing” phase of the project was completed last week, but I had some time left in the budget, so I spent a couple of days updating the original Systir system tests that had been created for the first release.

After ironing out a few wrinkles (mainly updating to the latest Systir and Watir versions) I got the tests running. Due to some changes in the user interface I had to update the drivers a bit, but even after those changes there was one test that kept failing. It turned out the test had found a bug! I wrote another .test script that was specific to the bug, watched it fail, modified the code, and the test passed. Greenbar!

It sure made the time I spent getting the automated system tests running (as well as the time that was originally spent writing them) worth while.