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My Selenium Tests Aren't Stable!
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Simon Stewart) on Tue, 02/06/2009 - 11:30.By Simon Stewart
It's a complaint that I've heard too many times to ignore: "My Selenium tests are unstable!" The tests are flaky. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. How deeply, deeply frustrating! After the tests have been like this for a while, people start to ignore them, meaning all the hard work and potential value that they could offer a team in catching bugs and regressions is lost. It's a shameful waste, but it doesn't have to be.
It's a complaint that I've heard too many times to ignore: "My Selenium tests are unstable!" The tests are flaky. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. How deeply, deeply frustrating! After the tests have been like this for a while, people start to ignore them, meaning all the hard work and potential value that they could offer a team in catching bugs and regressions is lost. It's a shameful waste, but it doesn't have to be.
James Whittaker joins Google
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Patrick Copeland) on Tue, 02/06/2009 - 23:42.By Patrick Copeland
I'm excited to announce that James Whittaker has joined us as our newest Test Director at Google.
James comes to us most recently from Microsoft. He has spent his career focusing on testing, building high quality products, and designing tools and process at the industrial scale. In the not so distant past, he was a professor of computer science at Florida Tech where he taught an entire software testing curriculum and issued computer science degrees with a minor in testing (something we need more schools to do). Following that , he started a consulting practice that spanned 33 countries. Apparently, fashion is not high on his list as he he has collected soccer jerseys from many of these countries and wears those during major tournaments. At Microsoft he wrote a popular blog, and in the near future you can expect him to start contributing here.