A Smattering of Selenium #146

Happy ‘productivity destructive week’ — otherwise known as March break.

• How to Accept Self-Signed SSL Certificates in Selenium 2 — or you could use ‘real’ certificates that are trusted by the browser by default. If you are using self-signed certificates to ‘save money’ and you spend 3 hours making it work, you are not saving money anymore
• JockeyJS seems like it could be useful
• Dear every-js-widget-library-author, You can’t create a button
• If you are using PHP, then The Grumpy Programmer’s PHPUnit Cookbook should be added to your reading pile. Thankfully he doesn’t touch on the built-in WebDriver stuff but the ToC still looks relevant to what we do
• WordPress Performance Optimization is just cool — and could provide tricks for your non-WordPress apps too
• Single-Session Development is something I don’t do — but can appreciate the geek-ness of this
• JUnit’s evolving structure shows what the, erm, evolving structure of JUnit and has the killer line of ‘Programmers should be forced to wear their systems’ package-structures on their tee-shirts.’
• Basic Authentication With the BrowserMob Proxy, wow, that’s an annoying edge-case
• Breaking Down Amazon’s Mega Dropdown – ugh, because mouse events weren’t hard enough without menus tracking and rendering based on its position
• If you are intro RSpec, then RSpec Next Steps is going to be for you. Even if it does use a horrid html-based deck format (use the left/right arrow keys to navigate)