Okay, that was easy!
I have three separate Watir scripts written to open IE and:
- Automatically login with a valid test username and password
- Login with a valid username and invalid password
- 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.
