Tangible

No hierarchical test suites in Selenium IDE. [1]

I’m writing a bunch of test suites using Selenium IDE right now, and while attempting to make some nice, modular test suites with reusable chunks of tests, I kept running into this error when trying to run the test suite in the IDE:

Error loading test case – no command found

I was puzzled. I poked around the documentation a bit and saw responses that said to make sure to open the test suite with the “Open Test Suite” command, which is what I was already doing.

What I didn’t see mentioned anywhere was that test suites can not be hierarchical.

I had split up my constants into a few different files, based on what those constants were, and wanted to write one test suite to import all of them in the correct order. I was then trying to call that test suite from within another test suite when I got the error.

Linux Launchy has arrived! [5]

One of the few things that’s really been holding me back from switching my home desktop machine from Vista to some flavor of Linux was that Launchy, a program I use all the time, was only available on Windows.

But no more! A Linux version of Launchy has been released.

I’m going to get it set up on my EeePC first and then make the switch to Linux on my desktop machine.

Get Launchy

Goosh! [5]

If you’re a command line junkie and haven’t visited Goosh, you’re missing out.

Firefox 3 - Quick Impressions [3]

It was a little slow to load, but page load time seems faster.
I switched to the small icon set. The big forward/back buttons were way too big for my tastes.
The page text feels crisper.
Lots of my favorite extensions, including Firebug, haven’t been updated to work with FF3 yet, which makes me a sad panda.
Love, love, love the new “remember this password” and bookmarking UIs.
I think I like the Awesome bar…but it’s just so…so…different. It’ll take some time to really be sure.

Haven’t got Firefox 3 yet? The servers have re-grouped after the massive traffic attack from this morning at release time, so go get Firefox 3 now!

Snippet: jQuery Linkifier [2]

Here’s a very basic jQuery linkification snippet that I put together recently.



$(document).ready(function() {
        var linkable_content = $('div#linkable').html().replace(/(https?:\/\/[^ ;|\\*'"!,()<>]+\/?)/g,'$1');
        $('div#linkable').html(linkable_content);
    });

Now, this can’t be used in all circumstances. It doesn’t check to make sure that you’re not trying to make a link out of the href in a pre-existing link, so it should only really be used when you’re sure that it’s just plain text that you’ll be working with.

I could have done this server-side, but using jQuery to linkify the URLs prevents search engine bots from following the links, which got around the problem I had of wanting some links followed and others ignored.

Updating this snippet to work with a class (.linkable) instead of an id (#linkable), and to include ftp:// URLs is left as an exercise for the reader. ;)