RE: [Wtr-general] A general question about the role of scripted tests within the responsibilities of QA.

2005-08-18 Thread Tom
Title: Message Hi Michael   I am the sole QA grunt for our company, and there are several ways that Watir has helped alleviate my testing burden: 1 – I use Watir scripts to update our baseline data to try and mimic the client’s use of our application so our testing data is up to date. 2

Re: [Wtr-general] A general question about the role of scripted tests within the responsibilities of QA.

2005-08-18 Thread John Lloyd-Jones
Michael In our project, developers use watir for validating a build -- basically regression testing to demonstrate that the build is viable and worthy of deploying in the test environment. Testers use a disfferent tool. Their job is made simpler because they don't wate time on a build that has one

Re: [Wtr-general] A general question about the role of scripted tests within the responsibilities of QA.

2005-08-18 Thread Bret Pettichord
With little developer testing, testers often have to run lots of simple tests to uncover simple bugs. Getting the developers more involved in testing should allow the testers to move to more complex tests more quickly. At 11:21 AM 8/18/2005, Michael Kelly wrote: Content-class: urn:content-cl

[Wtr-general] A general question about the role of scripted tests within the responsibilities of QA.

2005-08-18 Thread Michael Kelly
Title: Message My developer chums and I use Watir as part of our test-driven development.  As such, we're giddy to be able to finally write unit tests for the UI.  But the presence of these developer written UI test scripts raises questions about what impact, if any, they will have on what o