London Selenium Users Event #4

In a couple of weeks the 4th event of the London Selenium users meetup takes place. This time it will be hosted by Thoughtworks, and has a loose theme of extending on top of Selenium. I’m pleased to announce the following speakers, in addition to a talk from Google on mobile testing with Selenium.

Andy Kemp – Andy has been working in software for 15 years. The last 6 have been at ThoughtWorks where he has worked as a tester and project manager across London, San Francisco and Sydney. His latest role is Product Manager for Twist. He has recently started blogging at http://kyndainverse.com

Samit Badle – Samit is a Selenium Committer and author of several Selenium IDE plugins. He is a Oracle Certified Java Programmer, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and is also a ISEB certified tester.

Andy Smith – Andy has been building websites for over 10 years and runs CanvasDemos.com, a repository for applications which use the HTML5 Canvas element.

The event is currently full, but join the waiting list if you’re interested in attending and if someone changes their RSVP you will be able to take their place.

Selenium Conference 2011 – Survey

The first ever Selenium is currently being planned for sometime in April next year. Get involved by responding to this short survey. Your responses will be used to help plan the conference.

Videos now online for ‘Advanced Test Automation with Firefox’

The videos from the third London Selenium users event are now available on the London Selenium YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/londonselenium/

How Mozilla Uses Selenium

London Selenium Meetup Event #3

This week saw the third London Selenium Users Meetup event, with presentations from Mozilla and an update from Simon Stewart on the progress of Selenium 2. You can read my full write-up of the event on my personal blog.

New London Users Event: Advanced Test Automation with Firefox

Although it’s been scheduled for a while, the next London Selenium Users meetup event has now been officially announced. As before, Google will be generously hosting the event, which this time is Firefox flavoured! There will be four presentations, mostly by folks from Mozilla, but also an update from Simon Stewart on the progress of Selenium 2. Head over to the event page on meetup.com for all the latest details.

Mozilla & LinkedIn using Selenium

Last night was the May Selenium Users meeting in San Francisco, where Mozilla and LinkedIn presented their use of Selenium. Adam Goucher (Selenium IDE maintainer) was there, and has provided his notes on his blog. It sounds like it was a great event, hopefully there’ll be some videos online soon!

GTAC 2010 Announced

The Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) for 2010 has now been announced on the Google Testing Blog. This year the event will be at the Novotel in Hyderabad, India. More details can be found by following updates on the official GTAC website.

Survey Results from London Selenium Users

Before holding the second London Selenium Users meetup we asked several questions of the Selenium users in London:

1. What is your level of experience with Selenium?
2. What do you want to know about Selenium 2?
3. What language would you like to see Selenium 2 demos in?

Below are the slides that I didn’t get time to show at the event.

In case you can’t see the slides above, the results are repeated below:

What is your level of experience with Selenium?

1. Beginner: 44%
2. Intermediate: 46%
3. Advanced: 10%

What do you want to know about Selenium 2?

1. New Features: 50%
2. Migration: 20%
3. Everything: 20%
4. Grid: 10%

What language would you like to see Selenium 2 demos in?

1. Java: 55%
2. .NET: 26%
3. Python: 10%
4. Ruby: 3%
5. JavaScript: 3%
6. PHP: 3%

Selenium 2 User Interactions API

Here are the slides from Eran Messeri’s talk on the advanced user interactions API that he’s currently working on for Selenium 2.