4. About Agile Changes in requirements are encouraged Development will be done in Iterations Follows Test Driven Development Follows Continuous Integration process
17. About WATIR W eb A pplication T esting I n R uby WATIR development is led by Bret Pettichord and Paul Rogers O pen-source functional testing tool
18. About WATIR WATIR is a Ruby library that works with IE on Windows Tests can be run in the background Scripting is simple
19. Advantages The tester need only learn the "Key Words" required The Detail Test Cases can be written in Spreadsheet format containing all input and verification data Easier to write acceptance tests Transfer of knowledge is easier Easier to report bugs, copy from the input file and paste in Bug Reporting tool Application independent
20. Disadvantages Initial time and effort to develop the framework WATIR does not support plug in applications like Java Applet, Macromedia Flash. WATIR works only on IE Finding reference (name, id, value) to objects (text fields, buttons) may be tedious