Speakers & Hosts
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Alister Scott ThoughtWorks watirmelon.com |
Alister is from Brisbane, Australia and has been using Watir since 2006, and has been the Watir web master since 2008. He’s implemented Watir on numerous software projects, most recently as an acceptance test tool with Cucumber. |
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Andreas Tolfsen Opera Software home.e-tjenesten.org/~ato/ |
Andreas is a QA Engineer at Opera Software, where he has written an implementation of Watir for Opera. He has a background as a web developer and browser tester. He holds a BA in Musicology from the University of Oslo. Andreas will also be speaking at thehttp://www.seleniumconf.com/Selenium Conference on OperaWatir and Testing at Opera. |
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Bret Pettichord Convio testingwithvision.com |
Bret is a quality assurance engineer at Convio and the director of the Watir project. He co-authored ‘Lessons Learned in Software Testing’, co-founded Watir and was on the launch team for Selenium. |
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Charley Baker Watir twitter.com/charley_baker |
Charley is from Denver, Colorado and is the lead developer of Watir. He is a QA architect and ruby enthusiast. |
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Hugh McGowan Convio twitter.com/hmcgowan |
Hugh has been using Watir at Convio for the last five years and have been actively involved in the local Watir community. He has also contributed to several open source projects, in addition to creating Rasta and being a lead developer for Roo. Hugh has been in the QA industry for 18 years, mostly in a test automation role. He’s currently a Principal QA Engineer at Convio. |
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Marek Jastrzebski Convio rubytester.com |
Marek has been working with Watir since 2007. Designed page objects framework for projects at Boeing and BlueCross BlueShield of Texas. |
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Simon Stewart pubbitch.org/blog/ |
Simon lives in London and works as a Software Engineer in Test at Google. His Open Source contributions center on Selenium, where he’s one of the noisier members of the community and a core contributor to the project. It has been said before that Simon enjoys beer and writing better software, sometimes at the same time. This is true. He is also the top hit for the search term “steel cage knife fight”, a fact that makes in inordinately proud. |
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Tim Koopmans Altentee altentee.com |
Tim is a performance and test automation analyst working in Melbourne, Australia on a personal endeavour to turn the commercial performance testing space into something a lot more open with tools like Watir, Watirgrid, Webdriver and Selenium. |
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Željko Filipin WA Research zeljkofilipin.com |
Željko is a software tester since 2004 and has used Watir since 2005. He is Watir community manager and host of the Watir podcast. |