Selenium

My. Get. Productive. I know! I’ll push out a smattering. Oh. … Python for Ruby Programmers is a pretty good deck, with the requisite snark at the end that you can safely ignore. Me @ Selenium Camp 2013 is Ivan’s mini-experience-report from SeCamp and has his slides on GhostDriver Using pip in production? pip install [...]

Happy ‘productivity destructive week’ — otherwise known as March break. How to Accept Self-Signed SSL Certificates in Selenium 2 — or you could use ‘real’ certificates that are trusted by the browser by default. If you are using self-signed certificates to ‘save money’ and you spend 3 hours making it work, you are not saving [...]

Alice Finch builds massive LEGO Hogwarts from 400,000 bricks starts out at awesome and goes somewhere further down the scale when you get to the photo that shows scale. Models of Automation — really, who reading this hasn’t had the conversation described in there in one of its variants Stop Moving So I Can Click [...]

Real Canadians watch curling instead of hockey. jsPerf is a performance oriented sandbox The Myth Of Convention Over Configuration – hint: its curation over configuration. And since this is how frameworks work… sublimetext_indentxml is a sublime text ... [More] plugin to indent xml — yes, originality counts with plugin naming Introducing Boxen – Boxen feels a lot [...] [Less]

If you had anything interesting last week I should have seen, you’ll have to resend it to me or @seleniumhq — things were a bit crashy. So … Opera switching to WebKit. That doesn’t mean you can write off automation with Opera though. Tragedy of the WebKit Commons Introducing ChemistryKit — a Ruby version of [...]

Its a Wiggle your brain kind of morning… Automated Web Testing Is Hard is the launch announcement of ChemistryKit Watir-WebDriver with GhostDriver on OSX: headless browser testing — the WebDriver version of this would be very, very similar to this. ... [More] jQuery 1.9.1 Released isn’t interesting from a new jQuery perspective, but the migrate plugin is. [...] [Less]

Its -12 Celsius plus windchill out. Why the heck is the office air conditioning on. Feel like I need a Mr. Rogers cardigan or something. Caret Navigation in Web Applications starts slow and then hurts your brain while reminding you that this automation thing isn’t easy. I don’t know NUnit or TeamCity so don’t know [...]

Buckets! I suspect that scanner-backed-by-selenium belongs in the ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ bucket ios-driver is in the ‘wouldn’t it be nice if Apple provided this’ bucket Selenium WebDriver utility for determining when page has ... [More] finished rendering is in the ‘ADF specific’ bucket’ I suspect JSErrorCollector is in the ‘already indirectly linked to’ bucket. [...] [Less]

Posting from the past into the future. Or something… (its a scheduled post). webdriverjs-with-jasmine appears appropriately named since it claims to be A standalone (includes standalone Selenium server (30Mo) + includes Jasmine) working example of a ... [More] test with WebDriverJS and Jasmine. Similar to the above, but with Drupal and Behat – Classic How I[he] send [...] [Less]

The support policy of the selenium project for Firefox browsers is to support the current and previous stables releases, as well as the current and previous ESR releases. At the time of writing, that means the supported versions are “10″ and “17″ (ESR) and “17″ and “18″ (stable channel). In addition to this, we are [...]