A Smattering of Selenium #53
Well, since the last Smattering there hasn’t been much in the community.
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Well, since the last Smattering there hasn’t been much in the community. Oh. Well, except for hitting the 2.0.0 milestone. Which seems like a good time to remind people that:
- Selenium is the project name
 - Selenium 1 is a project version
 - Selenium 2 is a project version
 - Selenium Remote Control (RC) is an API name
 - Selenium WebDriver is an API name
 - A person upgrades from Selenium 1 to Selenium 2
 - A person migrates from RC to WebDriver
 
And with that soap boxing, here are some links for your consumption.
- Run Cucumber with Selenium RC and a custom Firefox profile actually is using WebDriver not RC, but shows a valuable trick regardless.
 - I’ve linked to these slides before, but this is a very important talk by Kent Beck on the sort of business changes that need to happen in order to enable Continuous Delivery.
 - Pipelining the build for fun and profit is a bit of a product showcase, but splitting the build like this is cool.
 - Testing Asp.Net pages has a technique for overcoming one of the difficulties of testing ASP pages
 - Taking Browser Screenshots With No Display (Selenium/Xvfb) is a follow-up to his previous post. And is starting to get into weird voodoo; let’s take an image of something that is virtual
 - Selenium WebDriver + Linux (Headless) + Ruby + Jenkins == Awesome is the Ruby version of the above
 - WebDriver as a standard? Sure. Why not? [DRAFT] Charter: Browser Testing and Tools Working Group
 - Everything You Never Wanted To Know About DLLs is not automation related, but more about understanding how your tools are built. And waaaaay off the geek deep end.
 - The Sad State of Symbol Aliases from the same blog is just about the only thing that could top it
 - pdf.js reached its first milestone – I don’t know why exactly, but this strikes me as having huge potential for automation.
 - Selenium with SpecFlow has a few notes on using Selenium in SpecFlow scenarios and step definitions
 - mouseOver events in Selenium and jQuery hover provides a warning around JQuery’s hover binding.
 - Announcing TestNG 6.1 with a bunch of goodies. Well, if you like Java… 🙂
 - Missed EuroPython 2011? Here are links to torrents of the talks
 




