Monday, March 7, 2011 by adam goucher
I’m not a fan of using 3rd party abstraction layers (1st party are full win though) but Capybara has a large marketshare so Capybara (and Selenium) with RSpec & Rails 3: quick tutorial is likely going to be of interest to people.
And while on the subject of Capybara, here is a post on Checking Invisible Elements in it.
Keeping with the Capybara theme, we have Configuring User Agents with Capybara + Selenium Webdriver
Unit tests are overrated is a nice reminder to change all the tests in a system for a change — not just the unit ones. (C’mon, how many of us haven’t been burned and/or responsible for this.)
People-driven Test Automation includes this nice blurb
Automate Kingdoms Camelot using Selenium reminds me of the days when I had the MUD we played in fully scripted.
How to include dynaTrace in your Selenium Tests is an interesting idea. Would be even better using Page Objects that were controlled externally so you don’t have to modify working scripts to enable/disable timings. But that’s an exercise for the reader to do. (Oh, and if their marketing firm wasn’t tweeting about it every day, that would be keen too.)
#SFSE Video: Selenium Problem Solving Sessions has, amung other things, a demo of the dynaTrace thing.
User-Extensions With Selenium RC Using Ruby Client Driver (selenium-client) is slightly out of date (use selenium-webdriver, not selenium-client) but aside from that, has an important missing bit of the user-extension documentation — how to use them from inside a script.
I haven’t watched it, but From Continuous Integration to DevOps: Co-Evolution of Agile and Automation seems interesting. I actually used the phrase “Selenium is the gateway drug to DevOps” the other week.
Jenkins, RVM, and Selenium is really about Cucumber, but…
Setting up Selenium server on a headless Jenkins CI build machine is similar to the 8th light one, but for Selenese
Selenium 2 with Firebug run on FF shows how to add an extension to a WebDriver profile. Now to write a script for all these plugins
Building Custom Test Frameworks is a bit of a cautionary tale
The whole where-is-this-binary-hiding-on-this-machine-problem on windows has bit people a number of times, Test Automation: Checking for Bit-ness suggests a solution (in C#)
Functional Tests with Selenium 2.0 and cargo-maven-plugin updates some common documentation around launching the Se server and tests from inside Maven
A Smattering of Selenium #44
What started out as the week of Capybara rounded itself out fairly nicely
Successful test automation uses good tests that provide clear test results. A pass or no-pass result must be confident and trustworthy. By focusing on what the system should do rather than how it does it, this can be achieved easily and without breaking existing test cases whenever the logic of the system is changed.
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Monday, February 28, 2011 by adam goucher
A Smattering of Selenium #43
- The big thing in the new last week was ColdFusion. Yes, ColdFusion. I was amazed how much mention it got on Twitter.
- SeleniumCamp happened over the weekend and from the looks of things was a success. And had almost an even number of women as men — which is almost unheard of at these sorts of things. David Burns posted his thoughts on it and slide decks are starting to make it online now; search for #seleniumcamp for the ones I have missed.
- BDD approach with Selenium RC
- Flex Selenium RC
- Testing RIA with Selenium
- Selenium RC for QA Engineer
- Selenium RC Python
- Full Scale Automation Using Selenium
- Story Testing Approach for Enterprise Applications using Selenium Framework
- Selenium + Wiki = Executable Specification
- DSL, Page Object and Selenium – a way to reliable functional tests
- Selenium 2: The Future of Selenium is now!
- more photos
- A cool trick to get coverage number if you are using IIS is shown in Code Coverage of ASP.NET Applications On IIS — so how does one do similar for other web stacks?
- Adding a [URL] attribute to the [Browser] attribute for xUnit.net is a post I’m having a hard time summarizing, but seems pretty cool.
- UI testing your EPiServer site with Selenium and SpecFlow is another how-to post.
- Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language is just fun.
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Monday, February 21, 2011 by adam goucher
A Smattering of Selenium #42
Is this week’s post the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything Selenium?
- Selenium 2 – Get Number of Rows in a Table illustrates what is advertised, though it feels like there has to be a shorter way to do this along the lines of getXpathCount() or getCssCount()
- Atlassian Plugin SDK – how to provide optional selenium tests explains how to wire up Se with the Atlassian toolkit and has a couple task specific tips as well.
- Automated Test for Facebook Canvas Apps – Front-end automation with Selenium is very buzzword compliant: Selenium-WebDriver, Facebook, Canvas. All it needs is to run on a mobile device.
- Sauce Labs have released Se-Builder which is their interpretation of what a next generation record/playback tool might look like.
- I’m sure I had to know about this already, but Jenkins: The Definitive Guide is an open-source book on everyone’s favourite politically embroiled CI server. Speaking of politics, here is an interesting graph.
- Measure Anything, Measure Everything seems pretty cool. Suspect you could do something in your scripts to ping the counter so you could get visualizations of your runs.
- Se-IDE Natural Language Extension is very cool. Now, if only they had gone the extra step to make it a plugin
- Pushing the Boundaries of Test Automation is useful if you too are pushing boundaries — and most people are at least once per application
- Lift Testing has an example of writing Se scripts using ScalaTest. Think that is the first time I’ve seen that.
- Custom C# formatter for Selenium details a bit of the journey and links to a formatter that uses Fluent Assertions.
- The Case for “Longevity/Endurance” (Session-Based Testing) in Selenium partially rebuts the single, small, Se script idea. Or at least provides a counter example.
- I hack runners for fun, so A Unit Testing Framework In 44 Lines Of Ruby has all sorts of geek appeal.
- Hacking Selenium to improve its performance on IE has, well, hacks to improve Se time on IE. These are Se-RC specific, but came up in an Se-WebDriver context.
- Automatiser les tests Selenium avec Maven took over the selenium twitter search for a day or so — which isn’t that interesting except that it is French. Seems there is an under-served market there. Oh, and Google Translate is horrible on pom.xml examples.
- JSHint is another of those things that would be fun to integrate into a Se run
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