A Smattering of Selenium #47

Nothing says ‘Hello Monday!’ like a batch of links and a wife with a kidney stone.

• Eradicating Non-Determinism in Tests is a nice essay by Martin Fowler and applies to Se as Left uncontrolled, non-deterministic tests can completely destroy the value of an automated regression suite.
• 
  Reminds us to disable automated updates on your remote machines.
• Selenium Simple Automation Infrastructure is a framework built on top of Selenium using Python to make writing scalable, data driven, functional web tests easier with code.
• Lightsaber IDE is a A rite of passage – build your own tools just like the Jedi’s of The Old Republic is all sorts of win. Build your own tools!
• JUnit in a page
  • JUnit 3
  • JUnit 4
• Configuring the local validator with Eclipse is pretty useful if you use BrowserMob (and don’t have a hate-on for all things Eclipse)
• Internet Explorer 10 – 10? WTF? Didn’t 9 just come out?
• How to Lose Races and Win at Selenium has a great trick to reduce duplicate code when creating custom synchronization functions. (Good job Joe!)
• Not that there is such a thing as a ‘Best Practice’, but RSpec Best Practices is full of useful Best Practices.
• 
  Selenium – The Most Interesting Scripts In The World
• If you are scripting in Ruby, then the Practicing Ruby Ruby blog looks really good.
• While written for the Entrepeneur-set The Entrepreneur vs. The Strategy Consultant but could also apply to how one approaches automation.
• tddium takes the pain out of running Selenium testing in cloud.
• Jason Huggins was the guest on FLOSS Weekly last week.
• Not that using Excel as your data driver is a good idea, but if you did that with Java then Data-driven tests with JUnit 4 and Excel is going to be useful.
• Using Selenium to validate XHTML markup using lettuce is a cool trick to validate your HTML per W3C’s definition of good.