Viva la Chipperfish http://www.jrandolph.com/blog software development and testing Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Future of Web App Testing (and How to Stop It) http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2009/10/09/the-future-of-web-app-testing-and-how-to-stop-it/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2009/10/09/the-future-of-web-app-testing-and-how-to-stop-it/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:11:45 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=73 At the May 28th meeting of the Chicago JavaScript Meetup, I gave the following presentation on trends in web development, and how it’ll affect testing.

The talk’s titled “The Future of Web App Testing and How to Stop It”. The first part was a brief history of the Selenium project. In the second part, I talked [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2009/10/09/the-future-of-web-app-testing-and-how-to-stop-it/feed/ 0 Creating GUIDs in Two Steps or Less http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/23/creating-guids-in-two-steps-or-less/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/23/creating-guids-in-two-steps-or-less/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:28:21 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/23/creating-guids-in-two-steps-or-less/ If you happen to find yourself needing to create a GUID for your brand new C# program, a Google search for “Create GUID” is the first reasonable thing you might do. Here’s my summary after doing the same… First off, in the “Truth in Advertising” department, the best link from the top 10 was “The Quick [...]

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People still do that?! :-) No [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/04/testing-mission-impossible/feed/ 0 A web 2.0 app for uploading and running remote Python code snippets? http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/03/13/a-web-20-app-for-uploading-and-running-remote-python-code-snippets/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/03/13/a-web-20-app-for-uploading-and-running-remote-python-code-snippets/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:01:18 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/03/13/a-web-20-app-for-uploading-and-running-remote-python-code-snippets/ I know I read about this on reddit within the last week or so… But I just can’t find it! My Google-fu is failing me! Grrrrr. There was a general upload text area form where you copy in your code snippet. You then select the language from a drop down, and click submit. In the commentary [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/03/13/a-web-20-app-for-uploading-and-running-remote-python-code-snippets/feed/ 5 Annoucement: Selenium Users’ Meetup – Monday, February 25 2008 http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/02/20/selenium-users-meetup/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/02/20/selenium-users-meetup/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:26:15 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/02/20/selenium-users-meetup/ I’ll be attending the Selenium Users Open Evening this Monday, February 25. The event will be at the Google campus in Mountain View, California. Most of the core Selenium development team will be in attendance, traveling from as far away as Tokyo and London. Here’s a blurb about it from the sign-up page :

With representatives [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/02/20/selenium-users-meetup/feed/ 0 This is why I love JavaScript and Python, but not Java http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/01/29/fun-end-of-programming/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/01/29/fun-end-of-programming/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:02:38 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/01/29/fun-end-of-programming/ “Exploratory programming is the fun end of programming, and we hope that will be the guiding principle of the Arc community.” (arclanguage.org)

Amen! (And when I do have to work with code on the JVM, it’s via Rhino or Jython.) I don’t know how much I’ll use Arc in the future, but I already like its [...]

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Well, since last I posted… (~10 months!) I’ve been pretty busy. I started at Google eight months ago on March 5th, and so far it’s been great.

In April, I finally got to meet-up with several members of the core Selenium [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2007/11/09/me-at-google-the-11-month-update/feed/ 2 Feeling lucky… From ThoughtWorker to Noogler http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2007/01/24/feeling-lucky-from-thoughtworker-to-noogler/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2007/01/24/feeling-lucky-from-thoughtworker-to-noogler/#comments Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:13:31 +0000 Jason R. Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2007/01/24/feeling-lucky-from-thoughtworker-to-noogler/ Well, I’ve had six wonderful years in the land of Thinking and Working (aka “The Martin Fowler Company“). Today, however, is my last day at ThoughtWorks. I’ll be packing up my home in Chicago and joining Google in Mountain View starting in February. My official title there will be “Software QA Engineer“, which is ironic, because no serious software tester goes [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2007/01/24/feeling-lucky-from-thoughtworker-to-noogler/feed/ 9 A new litmus test for evaluating Python web frameworks — What’s your security policy? http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/08/10/a-new-litmus-tests-for-evaluating-python-web-frameworks-whats-your-security-policy/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/08/10/a-new-litmus-tests-for-evaluating-python-web-frameworks-whats-your-security-policy/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:36:47 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=45 With the almost daily announcement of new Python-based web frameworks, there needs to be a way to filter the contenders from the pretenders. I’ve been mulling over the idea of compiling a checklist for evaluating new frameworks. The checklist could also be used by new would-be Python framework creators as a gut check for the [...]

]]> http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/08/10/a-new-litmus-tests-for-evaluating-python-web-frameworks-whats-your-security-policy/feed/ 16 On Selenium and language design… http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/08/01/on-selenium-and-language-design/ http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/08/01/on-selenium-and-language-design/#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:57:04 +0000 Jason Huggins http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/?p=44 Lately, I’ve had language design on the brain. In short, I’m working to make Selenium tests Turing complete. Right now, the Selenium Core engine can parse simple command/key-word tests. No looping or conditional logic is provided, natively, out of the box in Selenium Core without using a user extension, like flowControl. Not that it’s a [...]

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