Selenium 2.0: Out Now

http://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/selenium-2-0/

by mattyb • 15 years ago

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senthilnayagam• 15 years ago

congrats guys, awesome project saving drudgery for web developers and testers across globe

wotsrovert2• 15 years ago

I'm one of those developers.

Last summer, I took over a troubled Ruby on Rails project; the code was a mess, overly complex and bug-ridden, lack of meaningful unit tests, and an unhappy client.

I needed integration tests. After trying and failing with Cucumber, I switched to Selenium IDE.

A year later, I'm very happy with Selenium. The project is turning around and I sense the client is warming up to me.

I now use Selenium on almost all my projects.

stephth• 15 years ago

What is it that made you fail with Cucumber and succeed with Selenium?

bobobjorn• 15 years ago

great work!

heyrhett• 15 years ago

Great job guys! It seems like there is an opportunity here to build a good testing service around selenium grid. Has anyone done that yet?

hinathan• 15 years ago

Isn't that what Sauce Labs is all about?

rb2k_• 15 years ago

yes

timxpp2• 15 years ago

yes, and browsermob, and alertfox

jasonkolb• 15 years ago

Selenium has always been one of my favorite projects. You can tell someone has been thru the stress-test wringer if they know its ins and outs. The newer grid stuff looks great, although I haven't played with it yet.

fuzzylizard• 15 years ago

Nice work and a giant Congrats to the entire Selenium team

npongratz• 15 years ago

Official website here: http://seleniumhq.org/

For those who don't know what Selenium is (or forgot, like me), it is a system for testing web applications. It includes the following components:

+ Selenium IDE (Firefox add-on for creating and replaying tests) + Selenium Remote Control (run tests in multiple browsers and platforms) + Selenium Grid (run tests in parallel across multiple servers)

I'm not affiliated with the project, I just wanted to provide a quick intro for those in a hurry to learn a bit about it.

anigbrowl• 15 years ago

I often wonder why dev blogs rarely include a link to the main site. As often as not, I have to type in the name or search on it because the blog masthead doesn't provide any background information or navigational aids to the new visitor.

adovenmuehle• 15 years ago

I used the 1.x versions of Selenium pretty heavily at my last job and the JavaScript selectors could get pretty hairy (even with jQuery).

Does anyone with experience with Selenium 2.0 know how much of a boost WebDriver gives for performance? Especially doing tests of a SPA with a lot of AJAX could get hairy and slow.

neves• 15 years ago

Selenium is one of the my hidden tricks to get good karma at my jobs. Everywhere I work I find a need for Selenium and everybody thinks it is awesome.

pivo• 15 years ago

A couple of years ago my company was in the process of purchasing QTP, an expensive testing product. I had suggested Selenium instead of QTP, but for whatever reason we went with QTP.

But we couldn't afford QTP licenses for everyone who wanted or needed to use it, so some people started writing tests in Selenium instead. Two years on, we're getting rid of QTP and switching entirely to Selenium. We're not doing it just cost reasons though, people just like using Selenium much more than QTP.

Hats off to the Selenium team for such a excellent tool!

3am• 15 years ago

Looking forward to trying it out. Many, many thanks for providing such an excellent tool. I was writing automated tests before Selenium, and it has been a seismic change in browser automation. Between you guys, JMeter, and Robot there really is a credible open source automated testing stack now.

chsonnu• 15 years ago

For those who prefer using Ruby, try the ruby bindings:

http://rubygems.org/gems/selenium-webdriver

Now wrap your tests in RSpec and you're good to go.

ericb• 15 years ago

I would look at Capybara before using webdriver directly in Ruby. With Capybara, with one line of code, you can change from using webdriver, to using the native rack driver, or a full headless browser setup like capybara-webkit, or akephalos for headless httpunit (which runs javascript).

https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara

drivers:

https://github.com/thoughtbot/capybara-webkit

https://github.com/bernerdschaefer/akephalos

timxpp2• 15 years ago

Just to mention another tool: For quick regression testing I found the iMacros for Firefox addon very easy to use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-f...

I also like its ability to read CSV files out of the box ("table driven testing").

jc123• 15 years ago

Was using 2.0beta3 of Selenium2 with IphoneDriver for around 4 months and it has been great. The quality was very good that I don't see a need to rush and switch to the actual 2.0 release :P Great work to the team!

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