Selenium Blog

(If I wasn’t still recovering from a cold there would be something witty here.)

• We’ll start this week with a cartoon
• So I know I have linked to playing pacman with se 2, but here is a site that explains the ghost behavior. If Google implemented the algorithms properly-ish, then this should be the ticket to crazy high scores. There should be a contest for this…
• Cucumber + Cuke4Duke + Selenium (WebDriver) = Enlightenment is step-by-step instructions for using maven to wire all these things together.
• shell in a box means you can now use Se to automate a unix shell
• How test automation with Selenium or Watir can fail provides two code smells for automation
• UI test smells: if() and for() and files is a bit of a rebuttal with some additional commentary
• Surviving end-to-end-testing… or, using Selenium for fun and profit is a write-up of the XP Day session of the same name
• The first thing that really became obvious to is that the community has to stop thinking about the tools and step back to look at a wider picture of the processes that have evolved over the last decade. Tools are there to assist us with a process, so focusing on tools and not on the process is just causing problems in adoption for new teams. is from Gojko’s article in the December 2010 issue of The Tester. And is extremely important to remember given that this is a tool focused blog
• Missed Øredev? Watch the videos!
• A post from Sauce Labs shows how to put messages in your script runs. Crazy enough, I did something similar.

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Great news! Thanks to the initiative of our friends at Sauce Labs, we’re finally ready to host the first-ever Selenium Conference. We’re still working out a lot of the details, but so far we’ve decided this first conference will be sometime in April and hosted in San Francisco.

In order to figure out the rest of the details, we’re looking for feedback from the Selenium user community. Please take a moment to fill out the following survey. Your answers will help us properly plan the best possible conference.

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We’ll start this week with the official announcement of ‘Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner’s Guide’ being available. Congrats David! (Still waiting for my copy…)

• There is now a DZone ‘refcard’ for Selenium 2. Of course, the reason Se2 is alpha is the API isn’t done with at least one major addition still left so it will be out of date in a month, but still…
• Here is another example of how to do Page Objects in Python
• Client-Side Profiling with Selenium 2 is David’s post about his recent London Selenium User Group talk
• Someone took the time to make a Selenium lens on Squidoo; which is going to get kinda circular once this post shows up on it.
• Why Automated Testing is Broken. Not much of a commentary here other than A-freaking-men. Ok, that was commentary.
• Selenium Toolkit for .NET got a version bump for the first time in a year.
• Driving a Flex Application via Selenium 2 WebDriver shows how to use FlexSelenium and Web Driver together
• RVM is one of the ‘cool kid’ tricks and Continuous Integration with Hudson is one of those things you need to know how to do if you are using it.
• Vagrant appears to take RVM one (or more) steps further
• I keep thinking someone needs to create a Selenium koans site. Inspired by javascript koans and ruby koans
• Launchlist appeals to me somehow. Throw in an API for launching scripts and you have a nice TCM system
• I spent some time figuring out how to integrate Robot Framework with Sauce Labs OnDemand and then wrote about it
• Web Driver for the BlackBerry – did not know that even existed.
• gocept.selenium is another Zope 2/Plone/ZTK integration
• BDD, ATDD and Page Objects was a talk done at SkillsMatter which was recorded

Oh. and I just noticed that this is the Selenium-iversay edition of these things.

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