A Smattering of Selenium #142

Its a Wiggle your brain kind of morning…

• Automated Web Testing Is Hard is the launch announcement of ChemistryKit
• Watir-WebDriver with GhostDriver on OSX: headless browser testing — the WebDriver version of this would be very, very similar to this.
• jQuery 1.9.1 Released isn’t interesting from a new jQuery perspective, but the migrate plugin is. Likely old news, but was new to me…
• GRASP (object-oriented design) ‘is really a mental toolset’
• How Not to Design Pairwise Software Tests is even more useful when paired (pun intended) with…
• Using Data Driving Wisely
• The Importance of the DOM has a lot of stuff that my not-in-gear brain is capable of processing, but…
• Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea. Sacrilege! Oh, wait, there is a patch.
• A brief chronology of SSL/TLS attacks can’t be automated, but good automation is to know what needs to be looked at by a human
• The Framework Superclass Anti-Pattern — for the record, my frameworks ‘require’ you have adapters to prevent lock-in. Oh, and they are Open Source…