A Smattering of Selenium #40

You would think by now that I wouldn’t be surprised by the number of links I collect in a week.

• The big news last week is that we (Selenium) have successfully avoided the whole Hudson/Jenkins drama by joining the Software Freedom Conservancy.
  • Se Announcement
  • Conservancy Announcement
• Speaking of Hudson/Jenkins, here is how to upgrade a Hudson install to Jenkinss
• I don’t like a lot of the messaging of the whole ‘Lean Startup’ scene, but they have some things to steal though. Is Deploying to Production 50x/Day a GOOD Idea? lists some
  • Immune Systems
  • Visibility of Changes
  • Release is a Marketing Term
• Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests covers automation to discover Layout and Navigation accessibility and usability problems through automation
• Watir Day it the day before Selenium Conf; come hang out and learn about our Ruby sibling
• How to use javascript-xpath is one of those rare SO questions I stumble on that actually provides insight to a rare corner of the API
• The PHPUnit docs have been updated to include an example of a Data Provider that returns an Iterator object. This caused me a half day of pain so is getting a link. (Data Providers are awesome btw. Not just in PHPUnit, but in xUnit frameworks.)
• The first half of Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching with BrowserMob and Selenium is only going to be useful to you if you are a BrowserMob VU user, but the second half is interesting or very important depending on how crazy your site is to automate. If you are using XPath and not doing starts-with, ends-with or contains you are writing brittle locators.
• Starting Test Automation for a Legacy Project is a summary of a thread on the Agile Testing mailing list
• The demo code in DDD9 – Slides and thoughts has examples of using Page Objects for C#
• splinter seems to be one of the first projects to wrap around / build upon Se2