A Smattering of Selenium #58
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And here we go again with more links than I thought I had collected…
- There are a metric tonne of site on the internets which are on how to scam your way through a Se interview. Hiring Selenium QA people provides some fodder on how one could look for and hire Se folk. 
- Why I don’t use spork reminds us that pain is [sometimes] a good thing. 
- The Jenkins project is having a conference on October 2 in the same hotel that SeConf was held. 
- So long, farewell, and thanks for all the automation lessons learned (or: o hai beautiful Page Object Model AMO Selenium tests!) could win the prize for the longest title ever. And has a good lessons learned section at the bottom. 
- Selunit lets you run your Selenese inside something like Jenkins 
- ATDD is still ‘the next big thing’, but Raconteur seems pretty darn cool. If I worked in C# that is… 
- From Agile 2011 we have - Continuous Integration, the minimum viable product - View more presentations from Julian Simpson - Pay close attention to the database section. I’m getting more and more convinced that this is the part that most companies can benefit the most from. 
- How to get the args of a function in Python is one of those geeky things that is super helpful and likely a smell that you are trying something you shouldn’t be at the same time. 
- Is your test automation actually agile? A Guardian Content API example. is part two of one linked in the last Smattering. And the last paragraph is so full of win. 
- Our friends at Watir have released Watir 2.0. Congrats! 
- I’ve not tried to run Cucumber in Jenkins, but explains how to do it should you have need 
- More people should make logos out of lego. 
 
- Waiting for elements when UI-testing with WebDriver and EPiTest explains a bit about the WebDriverWait class and has The road to UI-testing hell is paved with Thread.Sleep which would get it linked to in any event. 
- One thing that keeps getting brought up around WebDriver is ‘how do I get the http code of a request?’. The short answer is you don’t. The long answer is you have to do something like HOWTO: Collect WebDriver HTTP Request and Response Headers 
- How Cadence Predicts Process reminds people to look at all parts of the process when speeding things up 
- When building frameworks or DSLs it is useful to know how to make things as deprecated. deprecatable is one way to do it in Ruby 
- Exploratory Testing in an Agile Context is another session handout from Agile 2011. 
- #Selenium Tales from the road part 1 – Artifact Naming and Organization describes one way of organization your Se stuffs. That you need a convention I think is exactly why you should use dynamic suites via tags, but… 
- The PyCon US 2012 Call for Proposals is now out. 
- Continuous Deployment of iOS Apps with Jenkins and TestFlight describes how to build iOS apps in Jenkins (and if you want, pushing them up to TestFlight) 
- Why oh why am I only just discovering requests which makes Python’s urllib2 usable. 
- How to be a faster writer isn’t about writing scripts or code, but its ideas are still sound. 
- I pretty much refuse to read anything in ACM format, but On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules could be of interest to someone without my biases. 
- An Inside Look at the GIL Removal Patch of Lore is the geekiest bit of writing I’ve read all month. 
- I had forgot how much I enjoy purpose built sites like Is the internet down? 
- I did a webinar on Page Objects the other week for which the video is now available. Its not embeddable, but there is at least a link around the registration wall above the form. 




