25 May 2009, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in PowWow,Tools, 1 Comments
Selenium Web Driver, Functional Automated Testing: Vox Pop Pow Wow 2009-05-18
Working in small, distributed teams can be an exercise in loneliness. The solitary existence can mean missing out on a shared revelation or not getting feedback on a forming assumption. The Vox Pop Pow Wows are a chance for a group of peers to get together over Skype, talk about the news of the day, and provide that professional support that we otherwise might go without. Here’s the transcript from a recent talk [edited for readability].
A. – Matthew Reinbold, Founder and Creative Principal, Vox Pop Design
B. – Matthew Orstad, Founder and Chief Engineer, Rocket Midwest
- Toward More Transparent Business
- Wolfram Alpha, Search Verses Extrapolation
- Small and Special Conference, Philosophy of Small Business
- Akoha and Alternative Currencies
- Selenium Web Driver, Functional Automated Testing
- Natural Docs, Auto-documentaion from Source Code
- Accounting for Freelancers, Quickbooks, Outright
Selenium Web Driver, Functional Automated Testing
I don’t know if you saw in the Ajaxian last week they were talking about the Selenium Web driver. It’s a re-introduction of the web driver that let you code Java for Selenium. You can now write applications that automatically launch the web driver which may be something that would be useful and add some kind of admin ‘click-a-button’ have it run the test type of thing.
B. I think the appeal of at least a little bit of that is if you’re writing J-unit tests you could incorporate the whole suite. You could run the Selenium ones and all of it would just be happy and integrated. And, you could plug it into the http unit and some of those other ones where you can do lower level scalability testing, that sort of thing.
A. Cool, very cool. Well then there’s also you can write horrible, horrible social network gaming hacks this way too-
(laughter)