A Smattering of Selenium #48

Automated tests for HTML5 offline web applications with Capybara and Selenium shows how a custom Firefox profile lets you automate Offline capabilities of HTML5 apps

Robot Framework’s SeleniumLibrary 2.7 has been released primarily to pick up 2.0b3 of the Selenium Server.

There was a series of posts about using Selenium with Drupal recently.

Using XPath Axes for locating elements in Selenium discusses some of the more advanced ways of finding elements via XPath

I’ll follow that up with a link to the cssify project which will attempt to automatically convert XPath locators to CSS

And since we’re now onto CSS… CSS Stress Testing and Performance Profiling discusses the stress-css bookmarklet. Which you can integrate into your Se scripts using a trick I discuss here

VMTH (Virtual Machine Test Harness) seems like another thing to put into the automated deployment toolkit

GTAC 2011 has been announced — seems to be moving away from the hard-core automation geekery that it was when it started.

WatirGrid can haz Selenium if you want a different model of browser distribution and are using Ruby. Naturally, Gridinit also supports both now

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