A Smattering of Selenium #11

So it has been just over 2 months since the last Smattering of Selenium and a lot has happened; not including starting my own Selenium consultancy / startup called Element 34 and inked a deal for a book on Selenium. Here are the browser tabs that I have had open for far too long that would be relevant to Selenium users.

• Selenium IDE – 1.0.4 Released – the first release of IDE in a while. The next one should be out this week.
• Sauce Labs has releases their commercially supported versions of part of the Selenium suite: Sauce IDE and Sauce RC
• Not to be out done, BrowserMob has been very busy as well with new features, Se2 support and another cloud location
• While on the subject of BrowserMob, here is the BrowserMob Proxy which will let you do a bunch of games to your traffic
• If you are using xUnit.net with Se-IDE you will want to look at Web testing with Selenium and xUnit.net
• Screenshots are generally overused for the value they deliver in automation, but here is a good use of them
• And here is how to do screenshots with the robot framework
• One trick I have heard about to make interaction with ‘black box’ technologies like Flash, Flex and Silverlight is to turn on accessibility. Here is how to enable accessibility in Flex
• The project with the most presence right now in the ATDD/BDD space is Cucumber, but it does come with a learning curve. Here is a presentation on Behaviour driven development with cucumber
• Now, if you are using Cucumber with Selenium you will likely be using either Webrat or Capybara. Well, it seems that they are considering merging
• Speaking of ATDD, here is how to do it with PHP and Se
• Se2 examples are starting to surface; here David show us Se2 with IronPython — this is something I will likely need towards the end of the month for a client
• Here is another plugin for Firefox to add to your stable: Firefox Alert Closer — which does, well, what the name suggests