A Smattering of Selenium #26

It’s Labour Day here, so this post was written to backdrop of Sponge Bob. In case you were wondering.

• selenium-java-evidence appears to be another logging framework, this time with an emphasis on auditability. Personally, the reports from a CI server should be all that are required, but to each their own…
• taza is an opinionated browser-based test framework
• webdry is a Python (jquery-inspired) wrapper for DRY:er access to the Selenium WebDriver
• Self-testing AppEngine apps with Saucelabs seems like a cool little (if very low level) trick to using Se inside AppEngine
• Sauce Labs released their Getting Started With Selenium guide and is looking for feedback on it
• Need to interact with a web service during a BrowserMob run? Hybrid BrowserMob Scripts explains how to do it.
• Self-Verifying Page Objects is Patrick Wilson-Welsh’s first post in the series patterns that made up his and Dawn‘s Agile 2010 session.
• Felipe is starting to explore Se and TestNG (which is timely for me) starting with Using TestNG to launch your tests (and the Selenium server)
• Hudson create Kohsuke Kawaguchi did a webinar for Sauce Labs on using Hudson with their OnDemand service that was recorded. I haven’t watched it yet, but it looks like it has general Hudson and Se information as well.
• Se’s CSS support got and overhaul this week as Sizzle replaces CSSQuery as the way of finding things via the CSS locator. Sizzle is the CSS engine that powers JQuery.
• JBehave 3.0 has been released – for those who use it
• Simon wrote another technical piece on some of the inner workings for Se2 in Going Atomic: How