Hi George, > 1. How do I sell my services to a potential customer?
"73% of survey respondents believe Automated Software Testing is beneficial but few automated!" - IDT survey 2007 There are mainly three views, in my opinion: 1. don't believe automated UI testing 2. believe it is beneficial, but don't know how. Based on IDT survey, that's 73% 3. Done that, but automated UI testing is over-hyped, expensive and don't work in practice (hard to maintain) Understand your customers, then convince them accordingly. > 2. How much should I charge for script development? Is it by the hour? > By the size of the project? It really depends on nature of work. > 3. Would I need to require them to install Ruby/Watir/other gems to > run the scripts or should I try to encapsulate it into an .exe file? I found people often having troubles with standard One-Click Ruby installer, such as behind Firewall and not knowing command-line. This could easily frustrate your customers. I packaged an one-click installer RubyShell with Watir (and some other related gems such as RSpec, Spreadsheet, FasterCSV...) included. Can run Watir tests straightaway after installation, and you can install/update/remove as usual. It is freely available at http://testwisely.com/downloads Zhimin Zhan www.testwisely.com -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected]
