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Added by Carl Shaulis, last edited by Zeljko on Feb 08, 2008  (view change)
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The objective of all releases of Watir is to follow these four precepts:

1. Compatibility - Releases of Watir are intended to be backward and forward compatible to all releases with a consistent feature set.

  • Actually this is not always true. We are specifically planning some changes to Watir 1.6 that will not be backwards compatable. In these cases, the final version of 1.5.x will provide suitable warnings to allow for smooth upgrades. - Bret

2. Supportability - Code changes are intended to be easily supported in all releases and the code maintainable in proportion to the available resources.

  • I'm not sure what this means. - Bret

3. Documentation - Documentation is intended to be complete and consistent for each Watir release.

4. Browser Driven - Browsers are intended to be supported by Watir in future releases and compatible methods for each browser format (e.g. - IE7 during Release 1.5 and Firefox/Safari are on the road map for Release 2.0)
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