http://www.jrandolph.com/blog Tales of corporate software development. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:21:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... test automation created by a siloed QA team working in isolation to reverse-engineer existing software and automate tests against an untestable UI using proprietary tools accessible only to a few select team members is guaranteed to be incredibly expensive both to create and to maintain, and also ridiculously fragile. People ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/04/04/testing-mission-impossible/ 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 ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/03/13/a-web-20-app-for-uploading-and-running-remote-python-code-snippets/ 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 ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/02/20/selenium-users-meetup/ "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, ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2008/01/29/fun-end-of-programming/ [update: yeah, I'm lame. Jan 24 to Nov 9 is (rounding up) 10 months, not 11.] 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 ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2007/11/09/me-at-google-the-11-month-update/ 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, ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2007/01/24/feeling-lucky-from-thoughtworker-to-noogler/ 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 ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/08/10/a-new-litmus-tests-for-evaluating-python-web-frameworks-whats-your-security-policy/ 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 ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/08/01/on-selenium-and-language-design/ A thread came up last week about JavaScript on the Rudolph Hering Society list. I promised to repost my thoughts as a blog post for a larger audience to dissect: Dave Hoover wrote: > Not everyone hates JavaScript. After digging deeply into (Chicago > resident) Sam Stephenson's wonderful Prototype > framework, extending it, ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/07/21/javascript-is-the-new-c/ Here is some "science fiction" I'm working on at the moment for testing the Django admin app with Selenium. I call it science fiction because the I'm still working on the code that will actually read this and execute it correctly in the browser. I imagine the source document will ... http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/07/07/see-spot-test-django/