Selenium

Note from Adam: This is a guest post from Dave Haeffner who, along with David Burns hatched this idea at SeConf2013. Selenium Meetups are great, but… Have you ever wanted to attend a Selenium Meetup but there’s not one near you? Or maybe there is but something’s come up and you can’t make it out that […]

A ‘should be scripting, but brain stuck in neutral so closing some tabs’ edition of the Smattering. The slippery slope isn’t automation related, but if your employer does these things I’d suggest logging a bug and then finding an ethical job Why Package Signing is not the Holy Grail – crypto / security is hard. […]

Apparently today’s ‘wait for an email’ task is to whittle down the smattering queue some more. I won’t even pretend that FOAAS has to do with automation, but makes me laugh. Also, depending on how crappy your place of work is, it might not be SFW PHP RFC: Importing namespaced functions is interesting if you […]

A Sunday Smattering? Sure! Solution to the Selenium with Firefox 22 Issues and How to Report Issues – Open Source is hard. Supporting Open Source’s infrastructure is harder — by a large margin frequests – asyncronous HTTP Requests; not sure where I would use this, but… why I don’t touch crypo – again, don’t. touch. […]

40-ish minutes until midnight eastern so that counts as two days in a row, right? Right? Improving jenkins execution times by common sense — common sense. sadly lacking most days. How to make test automation more effective? is useful up until the pitch at the end. So read until you get to that. Data Structures […]

Almost a month after the last one. Though it did nice to have it at 150 when people go to the blog … but a greater number is nicer. So I was trying to find Requests for PHP whilst talking to the grumpy programmer and he pointed me out to Guzzle which looks equally cool […]

Yup, this smattering has very little to do with Selenium, but… 150! Referencing DOM from JS: there must be a DRYer, safer way is a nice ‘here is where I started, and here is how I ended up where I am’ post which can be stolen into other languages / frameworks other than in Backbone […]

Too. Many. Tabs. Internationalization and Localization Testing — yup, I agree. 5 HTML5 Features you need to know – ‘download attribute’ and ‘datalist element’ might be a pain for us automators. Or at least cause a couple hours annoyance until we figure out the pattern. Death to sleeps! Raise of Conditions! – expected conditions is […]

Gotta start this up again… The Evil Tester Guide To HTTP Proxies appears to be more for using proxies for manual testing, but you should be running your automation through one as well so it helps to understand the magic that takes place. New BrowserMob Proxy release. Bindings should all be updated for the newly […]

This is a guest post by Marcus Merrell, one of the organizers of the 2013 Selenium Conference.  Selenium/Webdriver has kept my family fed since 2007. Since I’ve never committed a line of code to this magical project, I thought the least I could do was spend a few hours helping put SeConf 2013 together. When [...]