Selenium Blog

Thursday, March 14, 2013 by adam goucher

A Smattering of Selenium #147

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 : Lightspeed and Bulletproof is a useful trick which I know I’ve done variants of with java and ruby in the past
SeConf speakers are up — and the list looks really good
Interfaces or Abstract Classes? is marketing fodder, but its the best kind of fodder since its actually useful. For those of us still working through PHP.
I forgot about this semantic war in the whole three weeks since it happened…
Android UI Design Pattern in practice is not only useful, but I like the format…
Continuous Deployment: The Dirty Details – slide 18, 36, 42, 83, 102 are the killer slides. 102 is the killer-est slide and is where I would enter a semantic debate with the fine folks at Etsy over whether they are doing Continuous Deployment or Continuous Delivery
Could CSS3 be making sites that are not testable? – New standards making the life of automators more incredibly hard? Never!
Python – verify a PNG file and get image dimensions

Monday, March 11, 2013 by adam goucher

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 money anymore
JockeyJS seems like it could be useful
Dear every-js-widget-library-author, You can’t create a button
If you are using PHP, then The Grumpy Programmer’s PHPUnit Cookbook should be added to your reading pile. Thankfully he doesn’t touch on the built-in WebDriver stuff but the ToC still looks relevant to what we do
WordPress Performance Optimization is just cool — and could provide tricks for your non-WordPress apps too
Single-Session Development is something I don’t do — but can appreciate the geek-ness of this
JUnit’s evolving structure shows what the, erm, evolving structure of JUnit and has the killer line of ‘Programmers should be forced to wear their systems’ package-structures on their tee-shirts.’
Basic Authentication With the BrowserMob Proxy, wow, that’s an annoying edge-case
Breaking Down Amazon’s Mega Dropdown – ugh, because mouse events weren’t hard enough without menus tracking and rendering based on its position
If you are intro RSpec, then RSpec Next Steps is going to be for you. Even if it does use a horrid html-based deck format (use the left/right arrow keys to navigate)

Monday, March 4, 2013 by adam goucher

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 You Dammit! – illustrates the only acceptable place for Thread.sleep()
Using Realistic Data in Unit Testing and AngelaSmith: Creating Test Data is a two-for for the C# crowd — though the ideas resonate with everyone else
How to handle common components with Page Object Model? — I tend to use Inheritance, though am experimenting with Composition. The right solution is likely ‘both’
Dear Nic, Should we log directly? illustrates the good and bad of unix pipes
How foreach actually works was found via a snarky tweet, but is great
Introducing the HTML5 Hard Disk Filler&tm; API is hilarious. And the next salvo in the WebKit vs mono-culture battle
HTML’s New Template Tag – Standardizing Client-Side Templating — look! More HTML5 madness! And no automation suggestions / gotchas. But HTML5 Rocks is a great site anyways
Why your web app should be responsive — I’m coming to dislike the term ‘responsive’, though agree with the sentiment. Now, how does your WebDriver [or Watir] scripts change in order to handle this?
Nyan Cat RSpec Formatter is outstandlingly silly. And should be applied to all your RSpec runners. Immediately.