Update on Selenium 2

Published November 24th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms. Selenium runs in many browsers and operating systems. It can be controlled by many programming languages and testing frameworks. In this video Simon Stewart and Jason Huggins give an update on the progress of Selenium 2, and answer questions from the audience. Selenium 2.0a6 release brings new features like Android support, Firefox 4 support and experimental IE9 support.

Video Producer: London Selenium Meetup Group

LinkedIn Ruby-Based, Page-Model-Oriented Testing Framework with Selenium

Published August 30th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

We all know that UI test automation for any complex, rapidly changing web application can be daunting. Authoring effective tests is often painstaking, and the maintenance burden of keeping them kicking is generally hefty. In order to stay on top and keep our QA team in good mental health here at LinkedIn, we’ve adopted the page object pattern and implemented it in a way that solves some of the common headache-inducing problems around test automation. Wade Catron will demonstrate how this approach affords us a natural feeling, driver-independent test API with a tidy home for element locator mappings, producing tests that are robust, readable, and easy to fix.

Video producer: San Francisco Selenium User Group

Agile Testing and SeleNesse

Published August 16th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Tools like FitNesse allows test automation to happen quickly and broadly. However, many companies can’t support it in their infrastructure. Dawn Cannan got around this problem by helping create SeleNesse, a Selenium-FitNesse plugin. She also paired with developers in the Java space and the .NET space to bring this plugin to both domains.

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GWT Testing Best Practices

Published August 9th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

GWT has a lot of little-publicized infrastructure that can help you build apps The Right Way: test-driven development, code coverage, comprehensive unit tests, and integration testing using Selenium or WebDriver. This session will survey GWT’s testing infrastructure, describe some best practices we’ve developed at Google, and help you avoid common pitfalls.

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Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby

Published August 4th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/hall-testing-with-ruby

Molybdenum Cross Browser Testing

Published July 7th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Molybdenum is web UI testing made easy. Capture and replay, modularized and maintainable tests with bricks, data binding with external files, reporting with simple rerun possibilities, test other media than HTML like PDF with helper applications. It provides integration into build tools like ANT and Maven. Molybdenum is based on selenium-core. While SeleniumIDE is focusing on developers with export to different programming languages and crossbrowser testing, Molybdenum is focused on simple test execution, reporting, test parameterization for everybody participating in your team. This video shows how to do cross browser testing with Molybdenum.

Digg Technical Talks – Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Published June 29th, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

The creator of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, speaks to Digg engineering team about the current state of Hudson and what we can look forward to down the road. His comments about Selenium and Hudson are of particular interest to the QA team. There are all kinds of integration possibilities – from custom reports that include embedded Sauce Labs video results to automatically establishing connections between our environments, there are lots of ways to make tests run more often and more quickly through Hudson.

Related Resources
* Hudson Home Page
* Hudson – Your Escape from “Integration Hell”
* Continuous integration tools directory

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