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Version 2.27 â September 24, 2007 The "Selenium" Edition (Testing ColdFusion Applications Part Two) What we’ve been up to …

• Peter:
  • Admiring the new Bosch washer and dryer. It finally came.
  • Thinking a lot about streamlining processes and organization
• Matt:
  • Had a great time in Oregon!
  • Finally got my cable cards working so the TiVo Series 3 is fully operational
  • More A/V stuff—amazon.com Unbox rocks with free downloads of some of the new Fall TV shows right to your TiVo
  • Thanks to Peter and Kurt for the YSlow show
  • Doing lots of reading/research on productivity

No CFReport this week CFQuery â at 8:40

• Cutter calls to tell us that he was the 1000th site on gotcfm.com, and reminisces about old code
• AJ Mercer called to ask us about organizing your code in Subversion

CF_Focus â at 25:53

• Part 2 in a series on testing
• Selenium is an open source test tool for web applications available
• Used to do system functional testing and browser compatibility testing
• Selenium IDE
  • Firefox extension
  • used to record, edit, and debug tests
  • Can either have Selenium generate scripts for you based on simple actions (open a URL, click a button, etc.) or edit scripts manually
  • Can set breakpoints
  • Can save scripts out as HTML or several other formats

• Selenium Core
• Installing Selenium
  • Download Selenium Core
  • drop into your web root
  • There is no step 3
  • You’ll probably also want to install the Selenium IDE (Firefox extension)

• Using Selenium Core by browsing to http://server/selenium/ to see the main menu
• Using the Selenium IDE to create your own test suites
• Creating a test case
• Automating your test cases
  • Using Selenium Remote Control with ANT
  • Mike Henke recently posted a nice post on using Selenium Remote Control with ANT

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