- Watif if you don’t want to learn a new language just so you can test your web app?
- Watif you want to kick it old-skool with punch cards?
- Watif you want a fully supported automated test solution running SAS and with in built notifications of results?
Introducing Watif
Web Application Testing in FORTRAN:
web application testing that punches!
Watif is simple
Tests are created using simple, easy to use coding forms, easily followed by business analysts and end users. No more expensive test automation engineers!
Watif Coding Form
Watif is automated
Code is created automatically on punch cards using state of the art FORTRAN compilers, saving you valuable compilation time.
Sample Watif code (automatically generated)
Watif is fully supported
Watirfort is a new company of 1,000 monkeys, available 24/7 worldwide to commercially support Watif and make it a success in your organization.
Fully supported by Watirfort
Watif is SAS
All your tests are run by Watirfort using state of the art punch card processing systems, just like salesforce.com.
State of the art Watirfort labs
In built notification systems
When you purchase Watif services from Watirfort, you can specifiy how many homing pigeons you would like to lease. These homing pigeons are dedicated to delivering your printed Watif output directly to you! Rapid feedback!
Watirfort Homing Pigeons
Planned Additional Browser Support
While Watif 1.0 only initially supports the WorldWideWeb browser, alternative browsers including Netscape Navigator 1.0 are planned for Watif 2.0.
WorldWideWeb fully supported!
Quotes
“I wanted to run around my office punching my hands in the air.” - Bec Ferguson
Watif is available for immediate release.
Order now and get a bonus FORTRAN book.
happy april fool’s alister! i immediately knew where this was going…
Thanks Steve!
Nice work Alister. Your creativity knows no bounds….
Warms my heart to see Fortran is not forgotten; I resigned from Watirfort some time ago, but glad to see some of my rellies are still hard at it..!!
happy april fool’s~
I have been waiting for 30 years for this! FORTRAN was my first programming language. Now I can die happy.
Jim
lol
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I knew that someday that FORTRAN they forced me to learn in college would come in handy! Thanks Alister!
Ah, the nostalgia of punch cards, I can see myself dropping a deck of them now. Anyone remember Cobol programs that had OUTPUT of punch cards? I started out my programming career refactoring those to produce – yes – huge printouts on that green folding paper.
Heh. Good old days with Fortran
i’m really disappointed in this project. it’s not object oriented, no support for oo cobol, and how do you deal with behavior driven design with the monkeys?
behavior modified design? with positive reinforcement?
lol
Even Google App Engine is getting on board on FORTRAN train
And they even use FORTRAN 77 that I learned in college!
Alister, I will say this only once: this post is hilarious. :)
Nice post. :)
Back in the WTR days, I imagined it would be nice to have a library that supported all sorts of languages. I played around with SmallTalk a bit, but I couldn’t drive IE as easily as I could with Ruby. I bet someone could probably support this if you dared the right person. :)
-Jonathan
I laughed… much
Still remember seeing a compsci student at WWU nearly have a nervous breakdown when he was running across red square and dropped his deck (it must have been like 18 inches tall
Waiting for WATIP (no not Pascal, PL/1!!)
or WATIHPTSB (HP Timeshare Basic.. you write the code on punchtape with a teletype)
damm the really sad part is that if you’d have done this for Cobol intead of Fortran, I actually know people I could have sent it to who might not have gotten that it was a joke till you hit the monkeys
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Thanks for all your feedback. Due to quarantine difficulties, Watif and Watirfort are currently on hold until further notice.