A Few Conventions
One of the trickier things about writing a book like this is choosing the computer language to do the examples in. I picked Ruby, along with its sidekick Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript for a couple of reasons.
Ruby was chosen because there is a lot to be learned from this community about automated testing and web development in general. That, and Ruby is a fairly easy language to understand and learn—even if you aren’t a programmer.
JavaScript is in here because so much of the web is powered by it today. We have an entire chapter dedicated to how it can be used to test functionality in the browser.
But this shouldn’t be viewed as an authoritative book on JavaScript or Ruby. These are simply the tools we use today.
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