Selenium: What is it Good For - Series Overview

This is part one of the series of blog posts that explain the talks I've been giving at conventions and user groups recently. It is also based off the slides I used for the talks. The series will talk about Selenium, and how to use the different tools available to you to get automated testing started in your company. The difficulty becomes increasingly harder based on the part that you are on.

"Single User Mode" AKA root prompt with ⌘ + s

I'll be honest, I've never been a great mac fan-boy. In fact, I'm pretty sure that after my current macbook pro dies, I'll stick with a great PC that has all linux tested hardware and just use Ubuntu. It's not because I hate Mac. I like it quite a bit actually. It's because it's so damn expensive! With that said, I found this awesome looking iMac that was manufactured back in 2002, and their designs are cute and sleek. Unfortunately, It had the pervious user's password still on it. What do I do?!?

Dallas Drupal Days: Selenium, What is it good for.

Event location

Achieve Internet Room
Curtis Culwell Center
4999 Naaman Forest Boulevard
Garland, TX 75040

It turns out that I am presenting at the Dallas Drupal Days. It's going to be a very simular presentation to what I'm going to do on the 17th, however, don't let that stop you from coming to that one if you come to this one. I'm thinking of ways to spice up the Drupal Users Group talk with something a little more technical. UPDATED: I have slides but no video. The video didn't take due to a resolution change in the middle of the presentation. Will get you a better one at Dallas Drupal Users Group: Automated Testing with Selenium.

Dallas Drupal Users Group: Automated Testing with Selenium

Event location

LevelTen Interactive Offices
4228 North Central Expressway
Suite 210
Dallas, TX

Everyone, Make sure to join me as I speak to the local Dallas Drupal Users Group and give them a quick lesson on Selenium. If you miss it, worry not, as I will have a recorded copy of the talk as well as the slides on slide share all posted right here for your viewing pleasure. RSVP and let us know you are coming! UPDATED: I've got the slides up. Again, I forgot to record, but probably for the better. I'm going to write a series of blog posts on the subject though. Three in fact. Also checkout the HTML version of the slides.

Testlink and Gherkin

Yesterday I did some major studying on Gherkin and trying to figure out how it would integrate into our current workflow at work. In a meeting we had on Thursday, all the players involved agreed that test-cases at the beginning of a story would be beneficial. I've been through this before when I was a QA lead, and yes, Developers tend to do a lot better job coding when they know what QA is going to be testing for. Now I'm on the Development side, looking back at the QA side and trying to help out. Here are our discoveries.

Dallas Drupal Days Are Coming

I really wanted to give a simple plug for the Dallas Drupal Days 2012. I'm posting it here mostly because I feel that I have a real shot at talking at my first huge event and secondly because I want the camp to be successful. Of course, I want to talk about Selenium and how to get started as a developer. It is the thing I feel most comfortable with.

Headless Selenium

In my work with AllPlayers.com, I have excelled my knowledge of Selenium probably double again. I started with Selenium for all the wrong reasons, but now, I consider myself pretty darn close to an expert. As a result, I was asked to come up with a solution that would implement Selenium on all of our development sandboxes via our configuration management system, Puppet. Now the truth is, I know very little about shell scripting.

Christening My First Blog Site

I've never really wanted a blog until recently. What made me want to do it? Most of it was the hard effort I've put into doing youtube videos recently and trying to get my name out so I can do more public talks. I would like to say that I'm a prominent member of some user group or organization. To be frank, I'm just some regular guy (some general redneck) who wants a little attention, but not too much.
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