Selenium Blog

The only links left now are ones currently open in tabs right now. Hurray!

• November’s SFSE was Continuous Deployment At Mozilla: slides, video
• Practical Web Test Automation is a book available in both a free and paid editions. I haven’t looked at it so can’t comment how good or bad it is.
• The Why, What and How of Software Test Automation isn’t too horrible, though I don’t like the word ‘guideline’ and of course the measurement section at the bottom is complete hokum.
• Internet Explorer for Mac the Easy Way: Run IE 7, IE8, & IE9 Free in a Virtual Machine seems a bit sketchy in terms of license legality, but…
• PageMapper is a bit of template magic to create Page Objects
• Web Consistency Testing is starting to push what can [should] be done with Selenium
• Taking Automated Tests Off The Pedestal erm, takes automation off its pedestal
• Monkey-Patching iOS with Objective-C Categories Part I: Simple Extensions and Overrides is a technique I haven’t seen before.
• A Tool’s Tale would be better with Sebastian in front of it, but is still useful as a standalone deck.
• Introducing the software testing ice-cream cone – Dangit! Now I want ice cream.

And my post this edition is WebDriver and Meta Tags.

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• Mentioned in #74, Automating Web Performance data collection with BrowserMob Proxy and Selenium is more than just a link to GitHub
• Of course you are using the excellent Requests module rather than urllib2 which ships with Python; but are you using envoy instead of subprocess?
• Grabbing Screenshots of Failed Selenium Tests uses some JUnit magic. Also, gotta love articles that end in How easy was that?!
• Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot – Aside from an excellent name, its based on Deployinator which is pretty darn cool and I saw in action the other week
• Geeks and Repetitive Tasks. Umm. Yup.
• Officially Introducing “SST” that this link is here is evidence that I should go through the queue from the top of the list. There was a screencast on SST in #75.
• 7 Deadly Sins of Automated Software Testing – nice article and as someone who has done linocut before, that’s an impressive print that is featured.
• Introducing Selenose is a Selenium plugin for Nose
• Two useful Firefox plugins I stumbled on are FirePath and Firecookie
• Sorting a million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python is this edition’s geeky investigation

One thing I have done in these Smatterings is to not link to my own stuff, but am going to start linking to an article or two at the bottom of the Smatterings (unless there is general community backlash against the idea).

• In Introducing PHPWebDriver I unleash some code upon the world

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• Selenium Page Objects and Abstraction is one person’s attempt at writing down how they describe POs
• Running Geb specs using a separate driver profile to test mobile views in Grails shows how to create a custom Firefox profile in WebDriver
• Django and Selenium on Jenkins/Hudson (Headless) is yet another tutorial around xvfb but has a trick at the end I don’t think I’ve seen
• Python’s concurrent.futures is today’s analysis of building a script
• Browser Sedimentation has an outstanding diagram of whats what in a browser. I know I’ll be referring back to it.
• Airbrake seems like it would be useful — especially once you start parallelizing execution across instances
• Whole-team Test Automation: Making the Move offers some tips for implementing it on your team — at least according to the blurb at the top
• Hey look! Another xvfb think. Can we please just put this into the Se docs already?
  
• Selenium Webdriver, Perl, and Saucelabs also acts as a sample for the (a) Perl WebDriver binding too
• Convincing management that cooperation and collaboration was worth it – dark launches, config flags, oh my.

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