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		<title>Come on in, the Watir&#8217;s fine!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maura van der Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ruby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been an interesting week for me. I am immersing myself in Watir (Web Applications Testing in Ruby), an open-source library for automating web browsers that works with Ruby, an open-source, object-oriented programming language I&#8217;m starting to really like it! This is a great boon to those of us who have to write automation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This has been an interesting week for me. I am immersing myself in Watir (Web Applications Testing in Ruby), an open-source library for automating web browsers that works with Ruby, an open-source, object-oriented programming language I&#8217;m starting to really like it! </p>
<p>This is a great boon to those of us who have to write automation quickly that need to also be maintainable and not cost an arm and a leg to buy tools for. While some tools do exist, they tend to be expensive or brittle &#8211; or both.</p>
<p>The one thing I really am discovering is that there is a mixed bag of documentation and a lot of room for better documentation and training materials. Maybe it&#8217;s a place I can turn my writing skills.</p>


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