A Smattering of Selenium #56

Safari is starting to whinge about how many tabs I have open which means it is time for another post.

• Ripple-UI is a cross-platform, mobile web application emulation environment. From RIM. Could be something interesting.

• Tips From Our Codebase To Help You Write Reliable Selenium Tests has nothing I don’t violently disagree with. And makes me think we should just add Implicit Waits to the Se Server and be done with it.

• WebDriver does not support Sizzle’s extensions to the CSS standard. As it rightfully should not. But it you really want to, you can do something like Creating a Sizzle CSS Selector handler for Selenium2/WebDriver in Java.

• One of the things that Sizzle adds is :nth. Instead, we should likely start to think about is :nth-child. Useful :nth-child Recipes

• Follow Up to Maintainable Automation ends with A long-term automation strategy isn’t just about writing great tests that help you deliver awesome software, it’s also about keeping your sanity as your software and tests evolve.

• On the PageObject Pattern attempts to write up the Page Object Pattern in ‘proper’ Pattern format

• CI systems are all about communication. And desktop monitoring apps can assist in that. And if you are using Jenkins then Jenx seems neat

• How to use RobotFramework with the Selenium Library is a step-by-step tutorial for getting your first automated specification working.

• rsel provides a Slim fixture for running Selenium tests, with step methods written in Ruby.

• Slides from the latest SFSE..

  • Testing at Yammer with FooUnit, Jellyfish, and Sauce Labs

  • JavaScript Testing VIA Selenium

  The new Testing Pyramid is great.

• Reliable tests with Selenium WebDriver

  • Reliable tests with selenium web driver

  • Sample Code

• Slides from a webinar I gave yesterday.

  Selenium Page Objects101

• I’ve seen a lot of keynotes. Most suck, this one doesn’t.
  [blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/AYHluEYC%5D

• Improving developers enthusiasm for unit tests, using bubble charts is just cool

• Google Chrome joins Simpletest Selenium framework for Drupal

• Have a hard time finding unique CSS Selectors? CSSelectify Firefox plugin to help you locate unique CSS Selectors on a page could help

• Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors? has some insight into how CSS actually work.

• An Experience Report: Feature Toggling — which of course you should be using to turn off all the 3rd party crap that slows down your site during runs.

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