A Cucumber editor is one of the things on my list of projects. I could see that making Cucumber + Watir an easy sell for customer acceptance tests. Not sure when I'll actually start on it, though.
Richard On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Pete Dignan <[email protected]> wrote: > > This message may be of interest to anyone using Rally http://www.rallydev.com > to manage their agile process. > > I met on 1/20 with three folks from Rally: CTO Ryan Martens, Zach Nies > (VP of Product Development) and Bob Cotton (http://awta.wikispaces.com/ > Bob+Cotton) to talk about Watir and Rally. > > They would like to see all agile teams using their product, so the > more testing tools that have hooks into Rally, the better is for > them. But they do not have any test tool integration plans on their > own development road map this year. > > They would be very happy if someone were to create a "connector" (see > http://www.rallydev.com/products/integrations/) to Rally for the Watir > framework, probably using the Rally Integrations Toolkit for Ruby > (which "jump-starts developer productivity and efficiency through a > set of Ruby tools that easily interact with the data in your Rally > subscription via the REST Web Services API"). They see the test flow > as authoring (in Rally) -> execution (in Watir) -> results reporting > (back to Rally). > > They also talked about wanting to see a "rich Cucumber authoring > environment" (essentially an IDE) in Rally, but they don't have any > plans to create that yet. They are excited about Cucumber as a way to > express tests. I asked why; their answer: the tests expressed in > Cucumber act as documentation of features and tests that can be easily > understood by business owners. This is just an aside since many of > you know the new Watir framework includes support for Cucumber. > > We don't have enough bandwidth inside WatirCraft to work on any of > this anytime soon. I don't know if there is anyone out there in Watir- > world who might be interested in leading a Watir-Rally integration > effort (or open sourcing one you've already done), but thought I'd > throw it out there. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
