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January 7-9, 2005 - Austin, Texas
Open-Source Web Test Tools
Participants: (left to right) Bret
Pettichord, Mike Kelly, Pat McGee, Scott Barber, Elisabeth
Hendrickson, Martin Taylor, Karlin Fox, Chris McMahon, Ryan Wilcox.
Reports from the Workshop
You Can Lead
a Mule to Watir, Elisabeth Hendrickson
Testing
Tools are Like Screwdrivers, Michael Kelly
Testing at
the Browser: A Trip Report, Chris McMahon
AWTA6
Report, Bret Pettichord
WATIR
Web Testing Tool all the Rage at AWTA, Atomic Object
Call for Participation
Join us as we review and contribute to open-source tools for
the
functional testing of web-based applications. Help us understand the
strengths and weaknesses of existing open-source tools and work with
us to improve them, and make them easier to understand and adopt.
The workshop will consist of presentations, discussions and actually
sitting down and writing code, documentation, and examples. We seek
participation from developers of open-source test tools, testers with
experience using them, and people who want to learn more about how
they can contribute to open-source efforts.
Workshop Goals
- Survey existing web testing tools.
- Make connections between developers on different projects.
- Improve existing tools.
- Develop tutorial materials.
- Publish comparative analysis.
Expenses
We ask participants to pay a workshop fee of $100 to cover the
cost
of
facilities, refreshments and printing costs; $50 for students and the
unemployed. We
won't accept any fees from any participants travelling from overseas.
Participants are also responsible for their travel and lodging.
Contributions
We expect all participants to the contribute to the workshop
in one
way or another. Past AWTA workshops focussed on presentations with
active engagement with the audience. We'll continue to do some of
this. But we also will be planning time to allow people to actually
plan and make contributions to open-source projects. As the workshop
approaches we will be planning specific projects to focus on based on
participant interest.
Attending the Workshop
Participation in this workshop is by invitation based on a
letter of
introduction. There will be a limit of 25 participants.
We seek participants from a variety of backgrounds, including those
who:
- Have experience with test tools, including both commercial
and
open-source tools.
- Have experience contributing to open-source projects.
- Have experience with agile development methods.
- Have original perspectives that will be valuable to the
group.
All participants will be asked to contribute to workshop
projects
that
we intend to make available through open-source licenses. They will
also be expected to pay the workshop fee.
If you are interested in attending, please send us a letter of
introduction. It should have two parts:
- Background.
Describe your background and experience related to
the
workshop topic.
- Contribution.
Describe how you would like to contribute to the
workshop. Do you have a presentation you'd like to make or a project
you'd like to work on?
Send your letters to bret@pettichord.com,
esh@qualitytree.com, and kaner@kaner.com. We will be reviewing
letters on a rolling basis. You should expect to hear from us within a
few days of submission. Upon acceptance, your letter will be shared
with other workshop attendees. Participants are expected to attend the
entire workshop, unless other arrangements have been made with the
organizers.
Location
The workshop will be held at the Norris Conference
Center,
featuring
ergonomic office chairs and internet access.
Participants may choose to stay at the Summerfield Suites,
adjacent
to
the Norris Conference Center.
Time Frame
The formal program will be during the following times.
Friday 7 January, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday 8 January, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday 9 January, 8:30 am to 12:00 noon
All participants are expected to attend during these times.
An optional dinner will be held Thursday evening, which will
be open
to family and guests. Details on the location of this dinner will be
made available at a later date.
The workshop facilities will be available Sunday afternoon; we
expect that some participants will stay for smaller group sessions.
Organizers
Bret Pettichord is a
lead
contributor to the WATIR
and Selenium
open-source web test tools. He
teaches the Scripting
Web Tests
class, based on
these tools. All of these class materials are also open-sourced. He is
co-author of Lessons Learned in Software
Testing, and director of testing practice at ThoughtWorks. His
website is www.pettichord.com.
Elisabeth Hendrickson
has
published an open-source
tool for testing
.Net GUI's. She is an
independent consultant specializing in software testing and test
automation. Her website is www.qualitytree.com.
Cem Kaner is Professor
of
Computer Science at Florida
Tech. He also
directs the Center for
Software Testing Education and Research which
creates, collects and distributes open-source materials for teaching
software testing. He is lead author of Testing Computer Software,
Lessons Learned in Software Testing, and Bad Software. His
website is www.kaner.com.
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