Selenium

When we pushed the 2.0rc1 live, we really hoped that the next release would be 2.0 final. We very quickly got some feedback that encouraged us to push a 2.0rc2. Now, after just under three weeks, we’re launching a third and final release candidate. You can download it from the Selenium HQ site or directly [...]

Two big releases last week.. Selenium IDE 1.0.11 was released — with Firefox 4 support. Finally. And just in time for people to start agitating for Firefox 5 support. official announcement, unofficial announcement Selenium 2 RC1 (and RC2) were released which marks the first official release of the new in-server grid behaviour. Even if you [...]

You win some and you lose some. We’d been really pleased to get Selenium 2.0rc1 out, so we were pretty disappointed to hear that some of you were running into problems with the Java version of the IE driver not launching IE sometimes. That’s definitely not good, so we fixed the problems and have released [...]

We’re very happy to announce the first Release Candidate for Selenium 2, available for Java, C#, Ruby and Python. The API has been stabilised and the functionality needed for the final 2.0 release is mostly in. We’re going to be working hard to get there as soon as possible, but now’s the perfect time to [...]

We know that you have been waiting eagerly for this release and you have to wait no more. Selenium IDE 1.0.11 is now here and you can get it from the seleniumhq download site. The update will also be pushed to you automatically over the next couple days. Other things of note around this release [...]

Half a century! And because I am late doing this, the Selenium Test Day for Addons.Mozilla.org — which is today! gets top billing. Its actually going on Right Now. Looking to practice script writing and/or up your profile? This is a great way. And now for the usual stuff. .NET Headless browser options looks at [...]

Here is the next 10 links as I play catch-up. First up is the Selenium Conf videos. There are only seven up currently, but as they are processed they will be posted Silicon Valley Continuous Integration Summit, April 7, 2011 Virtual Hudson Build Environments – Part One, Part Two The second last paragraph of So [...]

It’s catch-up time again! Here is the first 10. Automated tests for HTML5 offline web applications with Capybara and Selenium shows how a custom Firefox profile lets you automate Offline capabilities of HTML5 apps Robot Framework’s SeleniumLibrary 2.7 has been released primarily to pick up 2.0b3 of the Selenium Server. There was a series of [...]

Nothing says ‘Hello Monday!’ like a batch of links and a wife with a kidney stone. Eradicating Non-Determinism in Tests is a nice essay by Martin Fowler and applies to Se as Left uncontrolled, non-deterministic tests can completely destroy the value of an automated regression suite. Reminds us to disable automated updates on your remote [...]

Let’s put Selenium IDE on Firefox 4 is Available for Testing! Now! outside of the normal list. We have a ‘working’ version of Se-IDE for FF4, but don’t really have too too much faith in it (or at least I don’t). Please help test it. Eight Techniques to Improve Your Tests is focused on unit [...]