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I attended Michael Bolton's session on exploratory testing a few years ago and it's fair to say it inspired me, even though my job duty specifically is as an automation guy. I built a series of Ruby modules to allow our exploratory testers to use the Ruby IRB, in combination with Watir, to make their exploratory testing more efficient.
Have there been any (or many) presentations specifically on this? I thought it might make a nice 40-minute presentation to show how you can create helper modules and have them auto-loaded when you load the watir-console, and then use them to help with ET. Some ways we've used a helper method for the watir-console are:
- Allowing the user to go to a specific spot in the web application by calling a single method. - Calling a method with an integer as a parameter to tell it to do something multiple times - Calling a method with a list as a parameter to send a collection of values to a method (such as creating users with specific names).
Anyway...does this sound like something that would be of value? Or too elementary? I'd love some feedback.
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