A New Project: just_add_watir

In an effort to get more actively involved with the open source community, I’ve recently starting working with another colleague on a new site called justaddwatir.com. This is an exciting collaboration of examples for web application testing in ruby (watir – pronounced “water”).

Watir is a simple open-source library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and easy to maintain. It is optimized for simplicity and flexibility. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page.

Its main purpose will be to serve as a working repository of examples that answer questions newcomers have when scripting in watir. Its secondary purpose is to act as an extended regression suite of more applied test cases, which with the blessing of the lead developers of watir (Brett Pettichord) will help test future releases of watir. A working code base of unit tests is being maintained at http://code.google.com/p/justaddwatir/

If you’d like to get involved in the project or you have a blog about watir which you’d like to be aggregated, please send an email to tim.koops at gmail.com