Two more open source projects from Opera Software

Today we announced two new projects included in our Open Source portfolio - OperaWatir and OperaDriver . Like Opera Dragonfly , both projects are development tools that make it easy for a web programmer to have a hard life. In short, these tools allow you to create automated tests that simulate the actions of a rabid user who has come to your website and without any clear purpose of clicking on a link, entering any gibberish into text fields, or filling out any forms that come to hand. In general, in real life such a unique one can hardly be met, but just in case it is better to test your work for endurance - our life, you know, likes to throw out all sorts of tricks.

The basis of OperaWatir was the popular open Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR) toolkit, and Opera’s browser has now become part of the friendly company of all the popular fellows for whom web development is being tested using WATIR. In other words, now with the help of OperaWatir you can create auto tests for your websites in case a mad visitor turns out to be an Opera user. Well, OperaDriver is a back-end to OperaWatir. Unlike OperaWatir, OperaDriver is written in Java and allows you to create auto tests using the JUnit framework.

More information about new projects is available here , and the source of these tools can be found on the pages of the OperaWatir and OperaDriver projects .