Chapter 60: Is Watir Project ready for Google Summer of Code?

Here are my suggested Google Summer of Code project ideas.

Should we propose them?

Yes, I know this is last minute. We have until 6pm EST today (3/12/2010).

Expect the first to be part of the Selenium project page
and the second one to be on a Watir project page.

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Safari Driver/Target for ruby-based selenium-webdriver
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Summary
Create safari browser driver (:safari) for the ruby-based
selenium-webdriver gem to be uses with watir-webdriver.

Tags
Se2, webdriver, watir, watirspec, watir-webdriver

Status
Draft

Mentor
TBD (technical)
Al Snow (general/watir community contact)

Description
The current selenium-webdriver does not support the safari
browser. Previous research suggests that the :remote
target, code within the safariwatir tool, backseat in github,
and firedriver in github may jump start this development.

The overall goal is to use this in connection with watir-webdriver
and run it against watirspec (similar to rubyspec).

Background:
http://my-ruby-journey.blogspot.com/2010/02/chapter-58-watir-webdriver-journey.html

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Finish watirspec (clean run) against watir-webdriver
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Summary
Get watir-webdriver to run all of the watirspec specs cleanly.
Possible targets include :ie, :ff, and :chrome.

Tags
watir, webdriver, watir-webdriver

Status
Draft

Mentor
TBD (technical)
Al Snow (general/watir community contact)

Description
Watirspec is a set of ruby-based specs that
specify how watir-webdriver should work.

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TODO's:

Twitter: @safariwatir, @watir
IRC: #watir

E-groups:
wtr-development@rubyforge.org
watir-general@googlegroups.com
webdriver@googlegroups.com
selenium-developers@googlegroups.com

Three main developers:
Jari Bakken (watir-webdriver, @jarib),
Simon Stewart (selenium-webdriver, @shs96c),
Tom Copeland (@safariwatir)