Credits

Watai does not come out of nowhere. Its foundational ideas are the result of two months of research in the state of web testing, and inspiration from great predecessors.

Inspiration

Much material was sought and analysed to create this piece of software. Among inspirations were:

• SauceLabs with Test::Right (introduction article).
• 4impact with Madcow.
• Coverity with Shelob (introduction video).
• Dan Cuellar’s Writing Well-Abstracted Self-Testing Automation On Top Of Jell-O speech: reflection importers, “self-test” methods in application code, abstract features with per-platform implementation.

People

• Fabien Massol for giving me the opportunity to work on this project for the time it needed.
• Nicolas Dupont for pairing, feedback, more recently contributions and most of all support.
• Thomas De Bona for his feedback and support.

Sponsors

• Eurogiciel funded the original research and development of the first versions.
• MESH gave a growing ground to the project while reaping its early benefits.