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Lightning talks and Selenium

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:29:34 -0500

My first demo of Selenium was at a lightning talk at STARwest in 2005. I was watching it with one eye and watching the time keeper with the other. Not out of rudeness; I was actually hosting the event. Grig Gheorghiu did the demo and even blogged about it .

At Citcon Sydney last year, I did an informal tool survey and Selenium came out tops by a long way. We had some lightning-style talks at the session but nothing on Selenium.

SUM greater than the parts: 2 hours of Selenium meet on Youtube!

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:44:20 -0600

When I read about the Selenium Users Meetup (SUM), I was excited. When I read the program, I was ecstatic. When I realized the location, I was shattered.

Last year I was able to visit San Franciso for Agile Open California. That’s because I was in Anaheim for STARwest. Now I’m back in Melbourne Australia, so San Fran was out of the question.

From SOAPscope to soapui

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:58:17 -0500

I use to be a very strong advocate for SOAPscope. That's before I upgraded from v4.1. to v5.2. Now I have an odd bug where I have to re-enter my licensing information every time I start the server. SOAPscope crashes when I attempt to add certain WSDLs to my project. And the new user interface is much much slower and a bit more clunky looking (making it difficult to navigate).

soapui to the rescue! A co-worker, Steve Keizer, turned me on to soapui yesterday. Then I noticed Chris McMahon had blogged about it (a strong reference in my mind). Within ten minutes, I had it up and running, pointing to my WSDL (the one that crashes SOAPscope), and had executed my first test. And, it's free...

Fit / Watir / JWebUnit Eclipse Plugin...

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:02:41 -0500

[textile]From the "AutAT Website":http://boss.bekk.no/boss/autat/ ...

AutAT -- An Eclipse Plugin for Automatic Acceptance Testing of Web Applications AutAT * is an open source Eclipse plugin, * makes test driven development of web applications easier, * contains a rich graphical editor for specifying how web-sites should function, * is written using the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF),

Selenium Record and Playback

Tue, 27 May 2008 08:08:15 -0500

Selenium Recorder is the precursor to a future release of the Selenium IDE. From the homepage:

Selenium Recorder is a Firefox extention that captures the input from user, and generates Selenium commands. It also supports editing test case files.

Testing your web UI using SWExplorerAutomation and NUnit

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:13:42 -0500

[textile]In my "previous posts about SWExplorerAutomation (SWEA)":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/2592, I addressed a couple of initial problems with getting "SWEA":http://home.comcast.net/~furmana/SWIEAutomation.htm to work on a specific configuration of machine.

Having got past that, I moved on to more interesting things... Specifically, using SWEA under NUnit.

I won't go into the detail of any of the SWEA main features since "Alex Furman":http://www.alexfurman.net does that better than me in his "Flash Demo":http://home.comcast.net/~furmana/SWExplorerAutomation.html and developer documentation available on the "SWEA home page":http://home.comcast.net/~furmana/SWIEAutomation.htm

When should you use SWEA? Well, there are so many different circumstances where it would be appropriate and many where it wouldn't... rather than guess your circumstances, I'll tell you about mine:

SWExplorerAutomation v1.4.1.4 incompatability with MSN Desktop Search

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:28:27 -0500

[textile]In a "prior post about SWExplorerAutomation (SWEA)":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/2592 I mentioned a problem (and solution) that occurs if you have applied .NET framework patches in the wrong order.

I have also found another incompatibility, specifically with "MSN Desktop Search":http://toolbar.msn.com

If you have the "MSN Desktop Search":http://toolbar.msn.com installed with the Windows Explorer / Internet Explorer search-bar (and tabbed browsing) the SWEA "Scene Editor" shortcut menu in IE doesn't appear. Although this is a minor hinderence since the short-cut keys still work, I wonder if it might impact other features of SWEA? so I have resolved it as follows...

"Unable to generate a temporary class" with SWExplorerAutomation...

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:56:08 -0500

[textile]While helping someone get started with evaluating "SWExplorerAutomation":http://home.comcast.net/~furmana/SWIEAutomation.htm (I'll call it SEA if you don't mind) on a client's site, we encountered an error almost as soon as we tried to use it... but it turned out that it had nothing to do with the tool and everything to do with a bug in an MS Security Patch... "read on to find out more":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/2592

SAMIE + HTTP::Recorder - Creating SAMIE scripts with HTTP::Recorder module on fly.

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:58:35 -0500

How would you like it if this happened? Have HTTP::Recorder to create scripts on fly to work with SAMIE module. Personally, i think it would be great to have such recording functionality. But as we know, HTTP::Recorder doesn't support SSL or javascript.... would that effects your tests? really?... Think again...

One way of avoiding/bypassing SSL restriction i could think of is to simply record the scripts with SSL disabled, and then manually just go in and change http to https....

OpenSTA 1.4.3 released

Thu, 12 May 2005 21:04:03 -0500

This release has been a long time coming but it should be the start of a new active period in OpenSTAs upkeep and development. The 1.4.3 release corrects some inconvenient issues that arrived with use on WinXP, fixes some old bugs, and generally improves stability specifically in the area of recording. It is recommended that all users upgrade to this new release.

See the OpenSTA portal for more details on the specific fixes included.

Watir and Selenium

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:28:18 -0600

Two excellent open-source tools for testing web applications are under development: Watir and Selenium. I’ve been contributing to both. Why? Wouldn’t it be better to just have one good tool? Both tools run tests directly in a browser, and both...

Web app testing with Jython and HttpUnit

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:56:57 -0600

Jython is also steadily making inroads into the world of test frameworks. It is perhaps no coincidence that in a talk given at Stanford, Guido van Rossum lists "Testing (popular area for Jython)" on the slide that talks about Python Sample Use Areas. Because Jython combines the agility of Python with easy access to the Java libraries, it is the scripting language of choice for test tools such as The Grinder v3, TestMaker, Marathon and STAF/STAX.

Apache HTTP Test

Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:41:29 -0600

Apache-Test is focused on designing test tools for the Apache HTTP Server Project. Includes a profile-driven HTTP load tester, a perl-centric HTTP test kit, and modules for SPECWeb99 tests.

Samie's Slingshot

Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:40:34 -0600

Check out a demo of Samie's Slingshot gui application.

There's a little more info on the samie home page.

TestMaker: web apps and services functionality tester

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:23:24 -0600

TestMaker is the complete test and monitoring solution that software developers, QA technicians and IT managers use everyday to solve scalability, functionality and performance problems in Web-enabled applications, especially Web Services.TestMaker makes you immediately productive with an integrated test environment and test agent Recorder.