Selenium

When this gets published, I’ll be sitting around the Barcelona airport waiting for my connection home. Unless I screwed up the time math. The dangers of uniformity pours cold water on something that I know I used to preach for automation environments. How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours doesn’t have code [...]

Dear body; what time zone are you in? Ah well, until that battle resolves itself, here are some links. Firefox the Clear Winner for Automated Testing has a wonderfully SEO friendly title, but really is just some cool usage graphs for their system. Extrapolate beyond that at your own risk. Task Automation FTW! — make [...]

Going to be on an airplane for the better part of the next day, so will likely miss some links … unless I am tagged on twitter with it. Introducing The Driver Binary Downloader Maven Plugin For Selenium solves a problem that has been solved a couple times but this seems the slickest. Normally I [...]

Apparently the links are slowing down for the summer? Ralph Bodenner talks about New Relic’s experiences at the SF Continuous Delivery meetup Xelenium: Security Testing with Selenium! is kinda an interesting use case Introducing mobile browser ... [More] automation from/with Opera A minimal WebDriver based DSL is a bit of an experiment Testing Chef Cookbooks is something [...] [Less]

Back on the train again. Wow, the highway is screwed today. The Automation Litmus Test is one that most companies face, but now it has a name Okay, who has more info on the bots mentioned in Meet the ‘bots’ that edit Wikipedia? Highly doubt that they are Se powered, but it is a fun [...]

In case you are curious, the train just went past my old neighbourhood. Marionette – The Future of FirefoxDriver in Selenium is a project that has been hinted at here before I think, but this is its coming out party. Oh. And its the future of the Firefox driver. Now, what I need is an [...]

This was supposed to go out Friday, but the flu bug I picked up decided to move the schedule about somewhat. As Se marches towards being a W3C standard, the sort of thing in OAuth and API Providers: Come on guys. scares me more and more. Why WP_Error Sucks. Intelligent error handling is hard. Especially [...]

I think everyone is on holidays right now… Firefox 15 plugs the add-on leaks — Hey look! Openness from Mozilla! I’m not kidding when I say I want to see more of these; from all browser vendors. JUnit Oath — when geeks collide! Integration Tests With Cucumber-Jvm, Selenium and Maven is nice in that is [...]

Seems I had this all ready to go yesterday… oh, and Happy Birthday Jim Evans — maintainer of IE and C# driver. If also a day late. Migrating Unit Tests from Selenium to Watir Webdriver is less about migrating rather than a quick overview of Watir HttpWatch 8.4: Supports Firefox 14 and Selenium appears to [...]

Apparently my body isn’t quite on left coast time… Butter Performance is a nice experience report on making a [big] html table behave. All sorts of headaches this would cause for automation. I’m now starting to think more about caching since some of that information is included in HAR files. So if you are automating [...]