Opera releases two open source projects

OSLO, NORWAY. OperaWatir and OperaDriver are the newest releases in Opera's ongoing drive to give back to the web developer community and create cross-browser compatibility. The two applications are designed to assist web developers to build automated tests that interact with their pages just as a user would, such as clicking links, entering text and submitting forms. OperaWatir is a branch of the open source toolkit Web Application Testing in Ruby (WATIR). OperaDriver is the backend of OperaWatir that communicates with the Opera browser. While OperaWatir is written in Ruby, OperaDriver is written in Java, and it allows developers to create automated tests using the Java-based JUnit testing framework.