Selenium

Looking like there might also be one later in the week too… As we start to transistion the web over the HTML5, I keep thinking about incorporating some ‘static’ checks into Se scripts. HTML5 Accessibility Chops: using nested figure elements explains some good (and bad) ways to use Jim took my nudging the organizing [...]

That’s it for this week. For TestMate / Java folks, TextMate-Bundle-Selenium-Java could be interesting. We’ve all made Oopses when writing / interpreting Se scripts, so it is important to remember that Mistakes: Transparency is Best Organizing ... [More] scripts is one of those topics that gets both too much and not enough attention. Organizing Your Tests adds [...] [Less]

In honor of this edition I provide… …in which I also date myself. CITCon is another one of those conferences I should go to but haven’t. Yet! 7 continuous integration ideas from CITCon is a quick list from the most recent iteration. Testing Facebook authentication with Rails 3 Cucumber, Capybara, Selenium has a nice little [...]

Its been almost a month, so time for a flurry of Smatterings. Maven has a bad reputation in some circles (ignoring for a second that you are using Java…), but should you be using it the QuickStart Archetype looks interesting. Why Your Monitoring Is Lying To You talks about types of logging which are valuable [...]

Spinach is a Cucumber-esque BDD framework that was advertised on twitter as having ‘less regex magic’. Not sure if it has grown Se support yet, but I have no doubt that it will soon. Coping With Big C.I. is full of stuff that is useful for even Small C.I. Sane AJAX Testing in Selenium uses [...]

We’re pleased to announce the release of Selenium 2.9. As well as improving the stability of Grid under high loads, we’ve added an experimental (and temporary!) feature that allows the Firefox driver to use a different mechanism for determining when a page is loaded. This is designed to handle the case where the driver appears [...]

Aside from one of the dog’s tummy making noises that imply a big mess to clean up later, this scheduling thing seems to be working out. Heard someone talk about doing bitmap comparisons last week somewhere. Adaptive Images tricks I suspect are going to become more commonplace. Good luck with that. Se is best at [...]

Trying something new; queuing up the catch-up post while I have time to catch-up. I’ve been lead to believe that Functional Testing with Arquillian is a Big Deal&tm;. Of course, I just see a lot of Java… If one thread raises an exception, why aren’t other threads’ finally blocks called? is an interesting question with [...]

How did I fall behind again already?!?! This is a pretty good deck. Automation Isn’t All Shiny Toys If your work is divided in time-based goals then providing videos of the end result is a fantastic idea. See Dave’s Q3/2011 in review. The last two screencasts directly relate to Se The training wheels came off [...]

In keeping with our (roughly) weekly releases, Selenium 2.8 was released today (and on Maven too), with a *huge* list of bug-fixes!  As well as improved stability, if you’re using the Java API, this release adds the ability to upload files to a ... [More] RemoteWebDriver server (see RemoteWebDriver.setFileDetector). Particular thanks have to go out to our two newest [...] [Less]