Thursday, December 6, 2012 by adam goucher
A Smattering of Selenium #132
2.27.0 is now out which means you can close the browser tab that points to the old Firefox installers.
- Not Providing an HTML Page? Think of the Kittens! is important to remember. We want to fix your bugs. Help us help you!
- The HTML5 download attribute is another bit I am not looking forward to have to automate
- Refactoring to Improve Testability – what can I say? I like experiential posts
- Oh how it pains me to suggest that SikuliWebDriver looks mighty cool
- Page Visibility API Support in Opera 12.10. Again, not something I am looking forward to automating.
- Ah brogrammers. DO NOT SEND “REGISTSER BITCH” TO GUESTS
- Ruby script to change the desktop background periodically on Mac is just cool. And you will notice that even though they could have spun up a browser to do this, it wasn’t the right tool for the task. Consider that the next time you want to light up a browser.
- So what that it is over two months old, but PHPUnit 3.7 lists some relevant information about the release
- SeleniumScreenSnapper seems pretty clever. Almost steal worthy in fact
- Supercharging PHP MySQL applications using the best API is useful when testing your app in general, but also remember that if you are trusting what the browser is telling you and not verifying it with the database you are asking for a world of hurt
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Thursday, November 29, 2012 by adam goucher
A Smattering of Selenium #131
Not sure how widely broadcast this has been (cus, you know, we’re good at communicating and stuff), but if you are using 2.26.0 and Firefox 17 you will get a nasty bug. 2.27.0 is in the works to address this (and a couple other things…) so if you need FF right now, keep your install at the latest 16 release.
- This is pretty decent. Except the usual “Feh! We don’t need humans to test! Automate everything!” bias you see around. Psst kids! Even the poster children for Continuous Deployment actually do Continuous Delivery (humans! shocking!). Oh, and the usual gloss over ‘cluster immune system’ which is the only part of this tend that has an elegant solution.
- Running Automated Tests in Parallel – Part 1‘s new bit to me was how to run groups of jUnit scripts from maven. Sure, I think I knew there was a way to do it but never had to think about it before. And as a bonus, here is the video that goes with the post
- PHP Sadness is kinda amusing from a language trolling perspective. But also actually really useful. Now for a Ruby Sadness and a Python Sadness. Of course, a Perl sadness would just be a one of those ‘try to click this moving box’ widgets…
- Following up on not automating GMail (aside through standard low-level protocols like IMAP or POP3) is a MailBox class for processing IMAP email (Gmail from Python example
- I’ll admit that Writing JMeter test plans in Ruby has me pretty excited
- But if Ruby/JMeter doesn’t do it for you, then maybe Funload will – How to stress test your app using Funkload — part 1
- Search is one of those things a lot of automation get burned by since things are often going in parallel and not casually waiting for someone else to look for something that was just put in the index half a second ago – Moving the Marketplaces to Elasticsearch
- I Call Them ControlObjects; I call them Elements, or with increasing frequency ‘Unnecessary Designer Porn’ for the rash of js-widgets-that-look-like-standard-html
- I’m kinda amazed I haven’t had to use the regex part of my brain in awhile, but everyone doing automation really needs to have that section tucked away somewhere – A Practical Example of Regular Expressions
- Low Power Server Monitoring with a Raspberry is just cool
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 by adam goucher
Must Have Git Aliases: Advanced Examples reminds me of someone I used to work with who likely couldn’t function on a clean unix system, but with all his aliases was mind blowing to watch
Writing a Selenium Test Framework for a Django Site (Part 3) has the usual myths and FUD around XPath and embeds locators in the script method but is the first thing I’ve seen that uses the Color class in Python so I’ll overlook those things. This time.
How to solve Selenium focus issues introduced me to jQuery’s :focus pseudoselector
I’m sure there is something to be learned from Use Rails until it hurts. Especially from the paragraph above the twitter inclusions
Checking an image is actually visible using WebDriver is something I plan on stealing.
Android 4.0 in VirtualBox seems like a cool way to build out an android build farm
Autoloading in PHP and the PSR-0 Standard has some Symfony specific bits, but is generally useful
Extending Selenium with jQuery is something else I intend to steal
From the same person is Combining py.test and Selenium to test webapps which shows off some of what py.test can do with fixtures. Not how I would do it, but cool none the less.
Let me say this again; the officially blessed solution for getting response codes is to route your calls through a proxy (like the BrowserMob Proxy) and then ask it what they were. But if you are bound and determined to craft ‘solutions’ that only work in a single browser, or a single language, or require changing your application then How To Get The HTTP Status Code In Selenium WebDriver will make good breakfast reading. North American time that is…
A Smattering of Selenium #130
Can’t get enough Se bloggage? Have a look at Overview of Selenium Blogs — though I must say there has to be something wrong with the Alexa algorithm if I am that far down the list. And behind both David and Alister. 🙂
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