Watir assisted manual testing results

Okay, that was easy!

I have three separate Watir scripts written to open IE and:

1. Automatically login with a valid test username and password
2. Login with a valid username and invalid password
3. Login with a non-existent username

Manually each of these procedures take about 25 seconds. Running these using Watir from my ruby editor takes about 5 seconds. That’s 5 times faster!!!

If I estimate that I need to log into that app 100 times today to do my manual testing, I’ll be spending 8 minutes logging in rather than  42 minutes. I’m already going to save aproximately 2,000 seconds or 33 minutes of wasted time (it took less than 5 minutes to write the scripts). Multiply that by 10 developers and that’s a savings of over 5 hours per day! That could be another feature.