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Bromine 3 beta released

clearspace@openqa.org — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:35:34 GMT

As the title states we have released a beta version of Bromine 3.

We hope that a lot of you will give it a spin and report any bugs you find so we can fix them asap. We have been working very hard to get this release ready and done our best to find as many bugs as possible before releasing this beta version.

As most of you probably already have read in our previous blog posts, Bromine 3 has been completely remodeled for a more intuitive user experience which should easen the user load when manageing the requirements, test cases and test scripts as well as running the test scripts.

Bromine 3 is not just a new user interface, we have done extensive work on how the test scripts are executed and how the results are handled from the test script and into Bromine.

We have used the experience we gathered while developing, maintaning and supporting Bromine in the last couple of years to bring you the best in handling your Selenium scripts. We truly believe Bromine 3 achieves this.

Now check it out:

Primary: http://bromine.openqa.org/releases/bromine3b.zip

Mirror: http://bergpalm.dk/bromine3b.zip

Installation instructions can be found here http://wiki.openqa.org/display/BR/Home

If you get stuck we will be happy to answer any question in our forum.

Best regards,

The Bromine team

PDF version of Sel Doc is available

clearspace@openqa.org — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:55:34 GMT

We hope Sel Community is benifitted greatly with the new Sel documentation available here.

Our selenium committer Santi has created a PDF version of Sel documentation and it is available here.

This is the offline version of selenium doc and would let one learn selenium even when not on Internet.

As always - Please let us know you comments/feedback on this.

~ T

Bromine 3 screencast

clearspace@openqa.org — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:21:14 GMT

Hi all,

We have made a 9 minute screencast of the new Bromine 3..

Feature list:

Developed in cakePHP
Simple structure Projects ->(has many)-> Requirements (and unlimited sub-requirements) ->(has many)-> Test cases ->(has one)-> Testscript
Each Project can have multiple sites attached. This gives the possibility of using the same testscript on different sites. (eg. dev1.google.com, dev2.google.com, google.com, google.dk)
Organize your requirements and testcases with drag 'n drop
You can design your test cases with drag 'n drop and inline editing.
Simple loadbalancing system to run your test scripts in parallel
Pie charts gives a fast overview of the application status
Easy to setup a computer test cloud to run your tests
Newest test script run decides the status of the related Test case ->(which influence)-> Requirement ->(which influence)-> Projects
Full test-report (ALL commands and their status, time/date for the test run etc.) from every test run
Currently supports PHP and JAVA
Includes custom Selenium-IDE formats for fast test script development

We would really like your feedback of any kind, design issues, features requests, any questions, any bug fixes (if any ), any patches, anything!

Your feedback could result in a new feature

Cheers,

Rasmus, Jeppe and Visti

The Bromine Team

Bromine 3 sneakpeek

clearspace@openqa.org — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:37:54 GMT

Hi fellas. Just felt like teasing you all a bit. Bromine 3 is coming along. Brace yourself

Watch the blog for future updates

Selenium Grid 1.0.4 Released

clearspace@openqa.org — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:28:37 GMT

This is a bug fix release with the following changes:

* Upgraded Selenium RC to 1.0.1

* Better error message when there is no registered

remote control for a requested environment.

* Direct link to FAQ in Hub console

* Change Examples to target Google Video: Flickr

randomly drops some requests causing test timeouts

Get it at http://selenium-grid.seleniumhq.org/download.html

Cheers,

- Philippe Hanrigou

http://ph7spot.com

Selenium 1.0 Released!

clearspace@openqa.org — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:32:12 GMT

While it's technically been out for a few weeks, we hadn't officially announced it: The 1.0 versions of Selenium IDE and Selenium RC have been released. You can download them here. These releases include several important bug fixes and, most importantly, a brand new set of documentation that we hope will further accelerate Selenium adoption.

We know it's been a long time coming (5 years), but we are happy to report that we have a renewed energy in the Selenium team and don't expect future releases to take nearly as long. In fact, 1.0.1 was released before we could even announced 1.0! Even better, a lot of fantastic work is being done on Selenium 2.0 by the Web Driver team. But none of that would have been possible without two specific groups of people:

Our new Selenium developers: Over the years there have been a lot of passionate and committed developers for this project. But this final 1.0 release could not have been done without our newest Selenium developer: András Hatvani. Andras has helped transform the Selenium project from a neat tool that was "stuck in a rut" to an active project with a new lease on life. His work was instrumental in allowing us to finally release version 1.0.
The documentation team: we knew that one of the biggest problems with Selenium was the documentation. Thankfully, a dedicated group of Selenium end-users took on the challenge to build brand new, consolidated documentation. These docs are EXCELLENT and are the result of a true labor of love by some truly amazing individuals. Please thank the following people if you run across them in the Selenium community: Paul Grandjean, Dave Hunt, Santiago Suarez Ordonez, Tarun Kumar, Mary Ann May-Pumphrey, and Peter Newhook.

Finally, a big thank you to the entire community is in order. We appreciate your dedication to Selenium over the years and we promise you that there's a lot more exciting things to come this year!

Patrick & the entire Selenium team

Issue management

clearspace@openqa.org — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:26:33 GMT

On the wiki page Issue Management in OpenQA projects with JIRA I have described a few months ago what I perceive as important and helpful when managing issues. Now I extended it and therefore I think it's important to make a note about it.

Conforming to the rules has benefits for both, user and developer as the issues get resolved sooner and the overhead of placing unnecessary comments can be eliminated.

The sections described are:

Before you commit make sure that...
Issue templates
Issue reproducibility
Attachments
Patches

The rules are quite simple and based on best practices, so I hope that everyone in the community can adhere to them.

Browser performance: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 vs Safari 4 Beta

clearspace@openqa.org — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:49:19 GMT

Since the third beta of Firefox 3.1 promised improvements in the TraceMonkey JS engine I was looking forward to run two of the most often used JavaScript benchmarks: SunSpider and the V8 Benchmark Suite.

I ran both benchmarks multiple times on my machine under identical system conditions (CPU load, memory utilization, running processes, etc.) and took Firefox as 100%.

Benchmark	Comment	Firefox 3.1 beta 3	Safari 4 beta 1	Delta
SunSpider	Lower is better	1291.4ms	803.8ms	38%
V8 Suite	Bigger is better	295 points	1835 points	522%
Peacekeeper	Bigger is better	634 points	1524 points	140%

Once again: These are no real-life scenarios, but specific benchmark suites for measuring JavaScript performance.

Update: Added Futuremark's Peacekeeper results.

The Bromine crew is expanding.

clearspace@openqa.org — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:17:06 GMT

Bromine aims to be the selenium open source test management software of choice.

We’re currently refactoring the entire codebase into the object oriented MVC php framework cakePHP (cakephp.org). Not only is this a radical improvement, it grants some unique possibilities to rethink and influence the project.

What do we want Bromine to do? How do we get there?

In this context the Bromine team is looking to expand. Currently we are 4 committers, 3 Danes and a single brave American, but our visions far exceed our resources, which is where you come in.

You are a person capable of making your ideas come through in web based development. Ajax, css and php are familiar concepts to you.

You’ll be using it in a couple of years. Come help shape it. Drop a mail at bromine(at)bergpalm(dot)dk if you’re interested .

Cheers,

Rasmus and Visti

New selenium-client release : 1.2.11 (Ruby)

clearspace@openqa.org — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:43:58 GMT

Hi,

Just a heads-up. I have released a new version of the selenium-client gem. It is mostly a bug-fix release . It also adds better jQuery support. Big thanks to Aaron Tinio who contributed a couple of patches via github.

For more information about the new release please refer to the ChangeLog : http://github.com/ph7/selenium-client/blob/529b03f7b57a04ca78cfb8e305b1bc45a6b7fe72/ChangeLog

The selenium-client is an idiomatic ruby API to Selenium RC packaged as a standalone gem. it also provides advanced reporting capabilities for RSpec: http://github.com/ph7/selenium-client/tree/master

Upgrade with:

sudo gem install selenium-client -v 1.2.11

Cheers,
- Philippe Hanrigou
http://ph7spot.com