Selenium Blog

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by adam goucher

A Smattering of Selenium #126

I’ve been threatening that I was going to do this for awhile…

What it feels like when you are running a long running batch of scripts…
Remember kids, your script cannot adapt to the unexpected…
But on occasion they can do something that…
Oh! Here’s a useful metric of productivity!
And just when you thought you were doing something without anyone paying attention…
Unfortunately what a lot of automation is like…
Or how about when you are writing code against the wrong environment…
How writing tests for a testing framework feels…
has too many to link to individually

Monday, November 12, 2012 by adam goucher

Right…

Perhaps I’ll do something else right now…

Alright kids, its not the Olympics, but Curvy would be a fun app for someone to automate.
Wow that was fast. Øredev has started to publish the videos from this year’s conference. Lots of good things in there.
The right tool for the job! is one of my favourite rants. And one that catches people off guard when I mention it — ‘but you are a selenium consultant’…
Mobile apps still need automated tests. Yup. Of course, its not like the OS vendors are helping their developers to do this. Actively hindering them is more like it…
On Being A Senior Engineer. Somewhere, a newly minted ‘Senior QA Developer’ fresh out of school is having a bit of a cry…
Right. So how would Composition over inheritance affect the Page Object pattern. Or perhaps not affect, but what would that look like?
Hrm. Eclim might be how to make Eclipse not suck.
And while I am taking cheap shots at Eclipse … IDEs Are a Language Smell. Or put another way, Dear Android…
Someone (or someones) should do a time analysis of writing out scripts something like Where Does All That Time Go?. I suspect though that a lot of automation would be cancelled as a result though.
WonderProxy seems like it might be a useful tool. Especially if you are doing behaviour based upon where you are. Though wow it is annoying to be somewhere you don’t speak the language and have your language cookie ignored. cough google cough

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 by adam goucher

Too. Many. Links. Not. Enough. Posts.

The important word is strive in 100% Automation Pass Rates.
PHP Error could be interesting to turn on in your automation environment. Well, if it is a PHP app at any rate…
Testing mobile? Tap Into Mobile Application Testing by Jonathan Kohl
Behavioural testing in .Net with SpecFlow and Selenium – Part 1, Part 2
cocoa-rest-client could be a useful tool for the toolbox if you are on mac and are testing rest apps. (And once you get it working here, you can automate it using Requests or similar)
sim_launcher is tiny little sinatra app to allow launching an iOS app in the simulator via HTTP and seems like one of those glue bits for large scale automation
Sick of your current random string solution? kiwipsum.
Changing Browsers without changing Code is a neat (?! — it is java…) solution to flipping browsers via command-line arguments.
Repeat after me, erm, Jez; There’s No Such Thing as a “Devops Team”
Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes feels like a peek into what can be done on the mac.