On Watir Podcast #42 and #43 Željko Filipin talks with Andreas Tolf Tolfsen about OperaWatir, just in case you wanted more of both Opera and Watir.

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If you did not have enough of Bret Pettichord at Watir Day, listen to Watir Podcast #1, #7, #19, #22, #29 and #45. Bret is a guest in all of them.

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In preparation for Watir day, take a look at Željko Filipin’s talks at Spletne Urice #106

and at IT Showoff conference (in Croatian).

In preparation for Watir day, take a look at Andreas Tolf Tolfsen‘s talk at Selenium Conference 2011.

In preparation for Watir day, take a look at Bret Pettichord‘s Opening Keynote at Selenium Conference 2011.

About the Talk

Watir makes automated testing of web applications easy and accessible for everyone. OperaWatir is new to the Watir family of testing toolkits, and finally brings automated testing to any device.

I will be giving an introduction to the browser automation scene, what lies ahead, and give practical examples of how we at Opera have turned things upside-down: Instead of using the browser for testing web applications, we use web pages to test the browser itself.

The talk will give you a broad introduction to as to why emulating actual user behaviour is quintessential to the success of your testing, and how automating browsers will increase the reliability of your tests.

About the Speaker

Andreas Tolf Tolfsen does browser automation at Opera Software, where he is a contributor on the OperaWatir and OperaDriver projects. He has a background as a browser tester and web developer, and has previously given talks on browser automation with WebDriver and Watir at various conferences in San Francisco and Oslo. He holds a BA in Musicology from the University of Oslo.

Links

home.e-tjenesten.org/~ato
twitter.com/tolfsen
linkedin.com/pub/andreas-tolf-tolfsen

I have talked with Bret Pettichord (co-creator of Watir) last week and he said he will be in Europe in June this year. We have agreed that it would be great if we had viaqa Watir days on June 15th and 16th, as part of viaqa conference.

Interested in Watir days? Let me know.

Željko

Update: We have renamed Watir Days to Watir Day, since it will be just one day, June 15th 2011.