Selenium

As you’ll start to see by the timestamps of things towards the end, I’m running out of ‘new’ stuff and am pulling from the queue now. Fairly certain I’ve linked to this before, but seleniumwrapper adds some syntacitcal sugar around the Python bindings. Though not sure that it makes it clearer to me. What the [...]

Eventually I’ll get back on the once-a-week schedule. But not today! Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time. Time is hard; let’s go shopping! Speaking of hard. Concurrency is not Parallelism (it’s better) — also has gophers Did Netflix actually Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys? I don’t see anything on their github account (and that is [...]

Figured I would get this out before the computer goes in for surgery. Automate Page Load Performance Testing with Firebug and Selenium is not a new topic, but a timely one for me Speed up your features with a backdoor login route is not a recent post, but something I’ve had to explain to people [...]

Five days and fifty links later… I’m working on a larger-ish rant on headless browsers, but until then there is Jasmine Headless WebKit Not 2. Not 4. But Three ways to generate test data for your ruby automated tests Downloading things is a pain, but Waiting for watir-webdriver downloads (and determining the file name) has [...]

Avoiding punching things about software packaging by doing the 4th!!!! smattering in row. Python Decorators is an attempt at picking up a stick the right way A lawnchair is sorta like a couch except smaller and outside. And a persistence solution for HTML5 apps. If your apps persist data, checking them in the browser is. [...]

Look at that! 3 days in a row, and the boy isn’t even gone to school yet and I’ve hit ‘publish’ Most people know about this already, but SeleniumConf has its own YouTube channel — which has all of the 2012 videos on it now. How to Dynamically Add Android Support to Selenium Server at [...]

Two days in a row! Take that doubters! Automated Software Testing: An Example of a Working Solution is an interesting take on designing an automation system for the US DoD. It sure as heck isn’t how I would do it, but I can understand how this context might lead to this solution. And it seems [...]

What? Its only been 3 months since the last one. Sheesh. Sorry about being a G+ article, but DOM Ready discusses briefly about how to build your page in terms of order of events. Of course, if you read the comments it is very much buyer beware, but… I’ve been fixating a bit on operational [...]

It’s been a while since the last Selenium release, but I’m happy to announce that Selenium 2.22 is now available for download. This is a big release for us and features two major changes. The first is that Selenium 2.22 is the first version that requires Java 6 in order to run. This has been [...]

In this series of blog posts we’ve introduced one of the keynotes and talked about some of the great presentations you’ll see at Selenium Conf ’12, but so far we’ve missed the most important aspect of the entire event: you. For me, one of the highlights of any conference is the chance to meet other [...]