Element 34 Archives
For a number of years Element 34 (dot ca) was a small consultancy that helped people automate browsers using Selenium, and later would focus more on Continuous Delivery and Laravel. It hasnt done any real consulting in almost a decade though, so that brand has wrapped up. There is some interesting content from that time though. So here it is.
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Using Elasticache Read Replicas with Laravel
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OOM with Laravel Excel
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Eloquent Pagination and Map — not the bestest of friends
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Laravel News Catchup
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ArchTech Newsletter
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Experimenting where to put MySQL
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Secure Node Registration in Selenium Grid 4
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I was on the ‘Test Guild Automation Podcast’
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Secure Communications with Selenium Grid 4
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Scrum is an anti-pattern for Continuous Delivery
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‘So what would you do?’
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We need a priest (QA) to bless (test) all our work
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Practice what you Preach
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Is your Automation Infrastructure ‘Well Architected’? – SeConfChicago edition
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Laravel and Logstash
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Structured Logs in Laravel (Part 2)
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Structured Logs in Laravel
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mobilexco/laravel-scout-elastic; an AWS Elasticsearch driver for Laravel Scout
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Client-specific domains with CloudFormation for clients that use Google as email provider
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HubSpot in an AWS World
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Harmonizing Maintenance Windows
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It’s always a Security Group problem…
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Faster feedback by limiting information frequency
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Using Puppet to manage AWS agents (on Ubuntu)
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Saunter 2.0
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Stop Being A Language Snob: Debunking The ‘But Our Application Is Written In X’ Myth
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Lessons learned from 19 months of a delivery manager
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Continuous Delivery in a .NET World
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SaunterPHP and the Browsermob Proxy
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Going Dependent
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Cooking With Web Automation – JQuery UI Menus
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So you want to build a framework…
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Page Object Contest #1: TimelineJS
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Screenshots and Artifacts
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Custom Firefox Profiles in Saunter
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Downloading files in Py.Saunter
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Nesting setup and teardown
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Get Clarity around your Automation
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Office hours at STAR<i>CANADA</i>
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PhantomJS/GhostDriver support arrives in Saunter
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Remote File Upload
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SauceLabs Custom Data
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Basic Authentication with the Browsermob Proxy
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New Saunter Support Option
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League of Automation Super Friends .. Unite!
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PHP and WebDriver – This time with a partial solution
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My current case against Record-Playback
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A Quick Frame-switching Trick
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Puppet-izing Oracle’s JRE
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get_cell_at(x, y)
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validate() — your HTML
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A really, really, really, fast tour of WebDriver
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IeDriverServer, WebDriver and Python
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[Automation] Trick or Treat Style!
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Waiting for jQuery
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Flex Latches
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Select2
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PHP-WebDriver and Touch events
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Apple Sauce and Android Sauce … Yummy! (And fully supported!)
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Py.Saunter 0.48 – Selenium Grid, Parallel Execution and CI
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The Automation Litmus Test
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Proxy & Executor
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WebDriverWait and Python
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California Tour – Summer 2012
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PHPHARchive
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SaunterPHP and Jenkins CI
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SaunterPHP PHP Versioning
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HARPy
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Get rid of the 3rd party crap
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Driving from CSV with SaunterPHP
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Announcing PHPBrowserMobProxy
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Snakes & [Web] Services
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HTML5 Media, WebDriver and Python
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Enabling logging in Selenium IDE
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HAR, JSON Schema and PHP
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Implicit Waits, Implicit Evil?
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Starting from Scratch with RC, Python and Py.Saunter
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Okay. Maybe a Singleton wasn’t such a hot idea
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Soft Asserts and py.test
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Looking for a SaunterPHP Beta site
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Not All Huge XPath is Evil XPath
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How to Choose Selenium Training
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Python, Postgres and some Monkeypatching (just for kicks)
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WebDriver and Meta Tags
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Introducing PHPWebDriver
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Sending characters at an element with WebDriver
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WebDriver and Cookies
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How to hire a Selenium scripter
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Not losing the trees for the forest
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Another example of burying Element logic in the Page Object
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Even framework opinions should be weakly held
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But this is a Number
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If it can’t fail, its not a check
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Pagination for data sets you don’t control
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How I shaved 50% off a single suite run – a write-up
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Just Enough Python to be Dangerous
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Wrapping APIs in your framework
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A refactoring writeup
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Sphinx, Py.Test Plugins and Decorators
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Beyond Content and back into Structure
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Before Setup
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Know and Respect the moving parts of Automation
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A Survey of the PHP and Selenium landscape
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Death to visible content as locators in automated tests
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The Great Locator Location Debate
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Implicit Waits
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Case Sensitivity of Attribute Names
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Before you outsource your BrowserMob script development
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Page Objects with Robot Framework
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An interesting Python csv trick
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Frames matter when counting elements
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Handling planned failure
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The two styles of synchronization
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Weighing in on the fate of the Selenium Stack Exchange
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My Big Continuous Delivery Summary Post
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Self-documenting Python stuff*
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A DRY Trick for variations of the same Action
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Triggering Validations
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Guaranteeing Unique Sessions with IE
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Puppet and Selenium
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Elements and Actions
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The CI server as a Selenium Grid replacement
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Parallel Job Chains in Jenkins
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Job Chain Starting Points
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Basic Jenkins Job Chains
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Automation and Feature Toggles
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Automating Content-based Systems
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Babies and bath water
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Jenkins Remote [Windows] Nodes and Private Github Repos
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Continuous Delivery – Managing the machines
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DOM Monster and Selenium
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What Continuous Delivery looks like to me
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Google Web Toolkit and id
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Are you satisfied with your tests?
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SFSE Lightning Talks
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Domain-Specific Languages
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Selenium Anti-Pattern – Including Setup and Teardown in the script
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Advanced Locator Abstraction in Java
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Selenium Anti-Pattern – Using DefaultSelenium
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Automation ROI
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Synchronization Pattern – Ladder
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A Revised Stance on Reporting
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Why your synchronization method doesn’t work anymore
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Hybrid BrowserMob Scripts
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Traceability in your Selenium scripts
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Configuration Files in Python
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Selenium 2 and Synchronization
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NUnit and log4net
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Dealing with File Downloads with Selenium
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Automation Smells
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If you really must write your Selenium framework in Java…
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Selenium and YUI buttons
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Assert vs. Verify in Se-RC
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May SFSE Meetup
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Selenium and Printing
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Generating Test Data for Integration Testing (with and/or for Selenium)
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Selenium and dynamically updated ‘values’
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Screenshots and Selenium
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Testing with Multiple Firefox versions
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Do yourself a favour and don’t test using HTTPS
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ATT2009 – From Start to Success with Web Automation
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Continuous Deployment — the video
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Competing and/or Complementary Patterns of Script Design
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Building a Commercial Environment to support Selenium
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The Selenium Value Chain
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Roles of Automated Tests^H^H^H^H^H Scripts
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History of a Large Test Automation Project Using Selenium
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Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools Workshop – 3
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Know your audience when building out Selenium
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What to do with the Selenium-IDE?
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Quality through the lens of Astrophysics
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Selenium and Canvas
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Analytics and Selenium
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Rake and Selenium
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Three types of form submits
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Rails and Selenium
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Selenium Anti-Pattern: Using the browser (for everything)
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Evolution of an Automated Test
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Throw out your Automated Tests
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Selenium and Ant
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Java Selenium RC as configured with Python objects
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Random test data from your database
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Running JUnit tests from Jython
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The Power of the letter J
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One, and only one, config file
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Oracle connectivity from Jython
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Starting and Stopping the Selenium Server