As I've announced elsewhere earlier this month, Pete Dignan and I are shutting down WatirCraft LLC. We've each decided to go our separate ways. For several months now Pete has been focussing his attentions on his other business, ProtoTest. Next...

Over the past year, I've been working on a startup software business. We're in the process of shutting it down now, actually, but that's a different story. During the past year, I've learned a lot about startups and business models....

When I started working on Watir, I was pushing a vision for automated testing. This vision still motivates my work with Watir. A couple of years ago, Brian Marick told me open-source developers should share their vision and let the...

Today, someone wrote me. They need to do a Watir Demo and needed a good test app to use. Did I have something they could use? Of course I do. We've been using the "Depot" test application for some time...

It still seems much too early to talk about it. I've been developing a testing framework for Watir users. We have one customer and some friends have been using it. It feels like a small twig fire that needs tending....

Last weekend I hosted the Eight Austin Workshop on Test Automation. We have a better record of this workshop than any previous. Notes from most of the sessions were recorded on our wiki, which also has links to photos, blog...

In January, Charley Baker, Pete Dignan and I will be hosting the eighth Austin Workshop on Test Automation. We’ve explored some aspects of Watir at past workshops, but this will be the first dedicated to it. Specifically, we seek to...

Last week we released Watir 1.6.2. This is a big release with a lot of new features and fixes, but the focus has been integrating the Watir and FireWatir code bases and improving our support for Firefox. Earlier this year...