A Smattering of Selenium #53

Well, since the last Smattering there hasn’t been much in the community. Oh. Well, except for hitting the 2.0.0 milestone. Which seems like a good time to remind people that:

• Selenium is the project name
• Selenium 1 is a project version
• Selenium 2 is a project version
• Selenium Remote Control (RC) is an API name
• Selenium WebDriver is an API name
• A person upgrades from Selenium 1 to Selenium 2
• A person migrates from RC to WebDriver

And with that soap boxing, here are some links for your consumption.

• Run Cucumber with Selenium RC and a custom Firefox profile actually is using WebDriver not RC, but shows a valuable trick regardless.
• I’ve linked to these slides before, but this is a very important talk by Kent Beck on the sort of business changes that need to happen in order to enable Continuous Delivery.
  
• Pipelining the build for fun and profit is a bit of a product showcase, but splitting the build like this is cool.
• Testing Asp.Net pages has a technique for overcoming one of the difficulties of testing ASP pages
• Taking Browser Screenshots With No Display (Selenium/Xvfb) is a follow-up to his previous post. And is starting to get into weird voodoo; let’s take an image of something that is virtual
• Selenium WebDriver + Linux (Headless) + Ruby + Jenkins == Awesome is the Ruby version of the above
• WebDriver as a standard? Sure. Why not? [DRAFT] Charter: Browser Testing and Tools Working Group
• Everything You Never Wanted To Know About DLLs is not automation related, but more about understanding how your tools are built. And waaaaay off the geek deep end.
• The Sad State of Symbol Aliases from the same blog is just about the only thing that could top it
• pdf.js reached its first milestone – I don’t know why exactly, but this strikes me as having huge potential for automation.
• Selenium with SpecFlow has a few notes on using Selenium in SpecFlow scenarios and step definitions
• mouseOver events in Selenium and jQuery hover provides a warning around JQuery’s hover binding.
• Announcing TestNG 6.1 with a bunch of goodies. Well, if you like Java… 🙂
• Missed EuroPython 2011? Here are links to torrents of the talks