A Smattering of Selenium #54

Two Smatterings in two days?!!? That never happens. Well, except when I get behind and have a metric tonne of links queued up.

• Next week appears to be Meetup week with ones in London on Tuesday, Toronto on Wednesday and San Francisco on Thursday. It’s like we coordinated or something. (But didn’t.)
• Last month’s SFSE meetup was on framework design. Here is the slides and the video.
  
• Selenium Smells goes on a bit of a rant (and provides solutions) to people putting sleeps in their code instead of proper synchronization. For the record, this is the first thing I do when I’m auditing people’s Se code.
• Se isn’t really designed for the ‘look and feel’ aspect of automation, but Selenium test for computedStyle a way to do it.
• Using Watir and want to use the new Opera driver? Its easy-peasy according to Using Opera with Watir-Webdriver (for free)
• What’s a Smattering without some crazy geek thing that helps you learn your tools better? __slots__. There you go.
• More build pipelining — this time with Jenkins. Our Jenkins Build Pipeline setup
• Nobody Understands REST or HTTP could be added to me required reading list.
• Read the last paragraph of of 404s, automation and other things. Now read it again.
• Mozilla practices what it preaches in terms of the Open Web as discussed in These are your tests: Testing in the Mozilla Ecosystem
• Insulating against failure using Caching Reverse Proxies just seems like a good idea.
• Web devs optimistic over IE10 conditionals drop seems to be something we-who-deal-with-browsers-and-their-quirks-for-a-living need to be aware of
• In a weird bit of timing A Selenium and Python appetizer came out mere hours after Getting Started With Selenium WebDriver on Ubuntu/Debian. For some reason, this quote comes to mind. 🙂

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