About Watir

Fun Fact: Watir was one of the most popular projects on RubyForge 10-15 years ago.

Read all about the History of the Watir Project.

Watir Contributors

The Watir Community has been very fortunate to have had the support of many wonderful people over the years. It's not just writing the code, but answering people's questions, creating documentation and organizing conferences. Thank you to everyone who has been part of the Watir Team over the years.

Current Team

Watir Steering Committee Member
Code monkey for watir gem

Watir Steering Committee Member
Support sheriff at Stack Overflow

Support sheriff at Stack Overflow
Support sheriff at Watir General

Co-creator of Watir Project
Code monkey for Watir gem, 1.x (Now deprecated)

Watir Steering Committee Member
Code monkey for watir gem

Team Alumni

Organizer of remote coding sessions

Code monkey for watir gem, 1.x (Now deprecated)

Code monkey for watir-webdriver gem
Code monkey for watirspec
Support sheriff at Stack Overflow

Support sheriff at Watir General

Code Monkey for SafariWatir gem (Now deprecated)

Author of the Watir Book
Support sheriff at Stack Overflow
Support sheriff at Watir General
Host of Watir Podcast

Organizer of Test Automation Bazaar (2012)

Support sheriff at Stack Overflow

Code Monkey for SafariWatir gem (Now deprecated)

Documentation at rdoc

Code monkey for Watir Website

Code monkey for Watir gem, 1.x - 4.x (Now deprecated)

Host of Watir Podcast

Support sheriff at Ruby-Talk


Code monkey for Watir gem, 1.x – 5.x (Now deprecated)
​Code monkey for watir-rails gem
​Code monkey for watir-rspec gem

Co-creator of Watir Project

Documentation at Watir website Support sheriff at Stack Overflow

Code Monkey for FireWatir gem (now deprecated)

Code monkey for Opera support in watir-webdriver gem (Now deprecated)

Project Manager for Watir Project

Code monkey for ChromeWatir (Now deprecated)