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Hacking Selenium

Talkat JSConf 2009 · 2009-04-24..04-25· [testing]
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Selenium is a robot library that drives browsers to reproduce user workflows and handles AJAX-heavy apps; its site is seleniumhq.org and the project reports 1.5 million downloads to date. The ecosystem includes Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control, Selenium Grid and a planned WebDriver merge that adds browser‑extension/native hooks to work around JavaScript sandbox limits. Demos show a Firefox extension reliably dismissing alerts, a cloud grid on EC2 for parallel runs, and screen‑cast style automated demos built with castanaut.

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  1. 0:00Introduction to Selenium
  2. 1:25Selenium features and design
  3. 3:35Limitations and challenges
  4. 7:00Historical development
  5. 13:19The Selenium family
  6. 18:14Handling browser alerts
  7. 22:37Asynchronous scripting
  8. 32:00The future of automation
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