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• Apparently the TestWatchman thing I linked to is deprecated now in favour of TestWatcher (shows how much I pay attention to JUnit stuff…). Here is an example of TestWatchers and RuleChains. No, I don’t know what the blurb at the top says.
• Sure, we’ve all see lorum ipsum text, but do you know what it (ish) says? now you do
• From the ‘MEASURE ALL THINGS!!!’ category is Mozilla’s BuildFaster. There was a cool graph of build times I saw somewhere too…
• The kids at Google have released Wicked Good XPath: a faster JavaScript XPath library. I suspect Se will be growing this appendage fairly soon-ish. And then we get to re-learn all the gotchas of a new library. 🙂
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• Discussions about PageFactories can only be a good thing. Optional Elements. Black Magic + explanations = Magic.
• Dear Google Code team; How we keep GitHub fast.
• There seems to be lots of good stuff on Darrell Grainger’s blog
• An Analysis of the Top Python Repositories Hosted on Github is interesting. I have no idea how to apply this to Se, but still…
• Read Naming From the Outside In before writing another line of code in a page object

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• Evolutionary Project Structure talks about a particular project structure, but this is one of those fun developer opinionated things to geek out on
• Testers Caught Sleeping on the Job is not browser-based, but you cannot bash sleeps enough. Also has a pretty amusing photo with it
• PHP: The Right Way is of course one person’s understanding of the ‘right way’ but still not bad.
• Automation is Code. But are your code conventions hurting you?
• Hate Eclipse for writing your scripts in? JetBrains has specials. I’ve only seen PyCharm, but it looked pretty nice.
• Has anyone tried manipulating tabs with WebDriver the way that is described in Closing Tabs in Chrome
• I haven’t watched it, but Moodle is now doing a series of videos on how they do automation.
  
• Want to hear Simon rant about how to Stop the rot: Banishing Flakiness from Selenium Tests with Simon Stewart? What are you waiting for then? Register already. Sheesh.
• The W3C has github-ified the html spec
• Looks like the Se Plugin for Jenkins has been re-written. Might be worth a look again.

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So do people celebrate the day after Labor day as the beginning of summer?

• Web Performance Power Tool: HTTP Archive (HAR) is worrisome that HARs are being billed as a power tool, but full of good stuff
• How do you pick responsive images breakpoints? is another one of those problems I think we’re going to have to worry about
• TestWatchman seems like an interesting bit of JUnit4. (At what point do we have to stop saying 3 or 4 when referring to JUnit?)
• I’ve been headhunted by Google for years now, Test Mercenaries is the one team that would have made me leap.
• Looking for the patches for last week’s Sauce announcement? They’re here. Holy magic numbers, Batman.
• I finally annotated A PHP Page Object Example
• I think you should let your database get dirty, but Configuring database_cleaner with Rails, RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium does seem like a useful gem
• Robot Framework – Windows Installation The Easy Way is the easy way to install RF on Windows. Shocking, I know.
• Amateurs Study Tactics. Professionals Study Logistics seems to resonate with me in how a lot of people approach automation.
• Weekly “Ask an Expert” Q&A sessions for Test Automation with the Mozilla ‘A-Team’

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