Selenium Blog

Going to be on an airplane for the better part of the next day, so will likely miss some links … unless I am tagged on twitter with it.

• Introducing The Driver Binary Downloader Maven Plugin For Selenium solves a problem that has been solved a couple times but this seems the slickest. Normally I would suggest just using Chef/Puppet for this but it makes sense in the Maven context. I think.
• Speaking of Maven, Maven Tiles brings modularity to your modularity
• Maven, Android, Travis-CI and More Awesome Sauce
• Google’s Olympics Doodles … with Watir
  • Hurdles
  • Basketball
  • Slalom Canoe
  • Soccer
• And using Sikuli to automate Hurdles
• When to Use Test Automation (and when not to) is barely just the tip of the iceberg
• Building and testing at Facebook is meh (and/or scary depending on whether your come from a dev or test background) but ‘gatekeeper’ sounds pretty rad. And is not currently on their github page.
• RSpec: Thank You for Running My Tests in Random Order — well, Test interaction sucks summarizes things pretty well.
• Documenting a mobile interface using Chrome’s user agent setting is a useful trick. Can we change the user-agent through WebDriver?
• Handle popup windows in Selenium 2 uses a different trick to find windows than I use. And thats a good thing.

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Apparently the links are slowing down for the summer?

• Ralph Bodenner talks about New Relic’s experiences at the SF Continuous Delivery meetup
• Xelenium: Security Testing with Selenium! is kinda an interesting use case
• Introducing mobile browser automation from/with Opera
• A minimal WebDriver based DSL is a bit of an experiment
• Testing Chef Cookbooks is something you didn’t think you needed to think about
• NASA’s github is not Se focused, but could help you build your own Mars rover
• WordPress Performance is a nice deck with lots of graphs and pictures
• Principles of Agile Test Automation outlines 4 principles and how they can often compete with each other
• Cucumber.js integration for SocketStream
• Testing Django applications with Selenium isn’t too bad. Of course, its logging in through Facebook which is one of those things you should have your development team provide a bypass for…

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Back on the train again. Wow, the highway is screwed today.

• The Automation Litmus Test is one that most companies face, but now it has a name
• Okay, who has more info on the bots mentioned in Meet the ‘bots’ that edit Wikipedia? Highly doubt that they are Se powered, but it is a fun mental image
• Custom PHPUnit Annotations is useful magic if you are building out a framework
• I’ve linked to things before about where to put things and how to find them, and purpose-oriented tests continues that trend
• Moving Towards a Continuous Integration and Deployment Process is a nice explanation of how one team does Continuous Delivery. Notice how they use [human] testers.
• The PageFactory is magic. And magic is not always good. As Iain found out..
  • Using By objects to verify if WebElement present
  • Using By objects to locate WebElements inside other WebElements
  • Using By objects in canned WebDriverWait ExpectedCondition

  Now, if someone wants to solve these problems using PageFactory and then update the wiki page…

• The Simian Army has been unleashed! (Also know as the Netflix Chaos Monkey)
• Rants of a Madman – I don’t care if it’s automation, it’s still code! is full of the ironies that testers inflict upon themselves and their teams
• Capturing Performance Data from Selenium Tests is a recording from the July San Diego Web Performance Meetup
• I used to believe in the tooth fairy is a nice reminder to be open to changing your mind.

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