Re: Future of HttpUnit?

Russell Gold wrote:
>>  Do you have ballpark numbers on cost and time to move toward Firefox 
>> and/or IE compatibility? It's going to end up in a sentence like, 
>> "Well, we could use Selenium for free, or we could pay X to have the 
>> needed features added to HttpUnit, which would be better because of 
>> A, B, and C."
>
> I don't know yet - I think that the direction I am going in will make 
> that relatively easy, but I am not certain.

Great. Let us know when you have a rough notion of what X would be. Feel 
free to express it as a range.

> An intriguing notion  - I have wanted to move into consulting for some 
> time. My expertise is largely in software development process (I've 
> been mentoring people in XP practices such as unit-testing and 
> refactoring for some time) and am a Certified Scrum Master, although 
> not yet a Practitioner, but could certainly do work as a website 
> testing consultant. I would need to know what kind of help would be 
> appropriate in that area. 

A frequent problem is that I tell people that they need some end-to-end 
tests, and they say that they don't know how, or that it's too hard, or 
that they don't have time. It also often happens that they get excited 
about solutions that seem reasonable but are actually dangerous, like 
record-and-playback tools.

Some of these people I just help myself. But when it's a large chunk of 
work, it would be great to refer that. Drop me a line off-list with 
rates and availability and I'll keep it in mind for next this comes up.

William



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