Top Selenium Tips From The Sauce Codebase

October 13th, 2011 by Ashley Wilson

Having run more than 8 million tests in the Sauce cloud, we’ve learned a thing or two about the common pitfalls folks encounter when writing and running Selenium tests.

To help others not make those same mistakes, we recently started hosting bi-weekly webinars led by Sauce Ninja Santiago Suarez Ordoñez. This week’s webinar covered various Selenium tips, including implicit waits, timeouts, and the reasons to avoid complex locators.

If you’d like to attend an upcoming webinar, register here. Happy testing!

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How To Test Behind Your Firewall With Sauce Connect

September 14th, 2011 by Ashley Wilson

Check out the video from yesterday’s Firewalls and Testing in the Cloud webinar to see how to connect your local and firewalled servers to our cloud using Sauce Connect.

We give live tutorial webinars every two weeks. If you’d like to attend an upcoming session, visit our webinars page.

Happy testing!

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Tips From Our Codebase To Help You Write Reliable Selenium Tests

July 26th, 2011 by Santiago Suarez Ordoñez

As part of our new “Test Like A Ninja Webinar Series,” I held an improv webinar last week that covered how to write better Selenium tests. Most of the content came from my own Selenium experience, as well as experience gleaned from working on our own customers’ issues.

Without further ado, here’s the video:

And here are some of the code snippets I talked about:

Implicit waits in Selenium 1:

Ignoring Open and waitForPageToLoad failures, as well as reporting pass/fail status automatically:

Reporting pass/fail status automatically on python for Selenium 2 tests

Tune in to the next Test Like A Ninja webinar on August 2 to learn how easy it is to test behind a firewall in the cloud.

Happy testing!

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Sauce Builder Webinar: From zero to creating, storing and running automated tests in under 30 mins

May 3rd, 2011 by The Sauce Labs Team



As you may have heard, we recently released a new, free tool that makes building and running Selenium tests easier than before. Sauce Builder is now available for download, and with it comes the ability to create Selenium tests in your Firefox browser by simply clicking around your application. You can then run those tests in Sauce OnDemand with just a few clicks, no Selenium expertise necessary.

To explain more about Sauce Builder and how automated testing can accelerate your development velocity, we held a webinar with Adam Christian, a Sauce Labs developer and project lead for Sauce Builder.

With Sauce Builder, we’re hoping to simplify and improve the cross-browser testing process for development and QA teams. Specifically, Sauce Builder will allow you to:

  • Build Selenium tests with zero programming - Simply click through your application and Sauce Builder writes a Selenium scripts that reflect your actions.
  • Export results in the language of your choice - HTML, JAVA, Groovy, C#, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby so your tests speak the same language as your application and dev team.
  • Eliminate bugs faster - Use immediate video playback of your tests in action, and share them with your teammates.
  • Remove test infrastructure headaches - Sauce Builder makes it a snap to either run tests locally in Firefox or in the cloud with access to all the browser / OS combinations supported in the super scalable Sauce OnDemand service.


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Selenium 2 Webinar: The Next Generation of Web and Mobile Application Testing

February 10th, 2011 by Ashley Wilson

Curious to know more about Selenium 2? Join Jason Huggins, creator of Selenium, for a webinar devoted to covering the essentials of this new testing tool that combines the best of WebDriver and Selenium.

Here’s a run-down of what you will learn next Wednesday, 2/16, at 10am PST:

  • iPhone and Android testing – See how Selenium 2 allows you to use built-in Android and iPhone emulators to test versions of your applications on the most popular mobile platforms.
  • Cleaner API for IDE users – Selenium introduces a simplified interface for IDE users that directs you to focus on only two basic objects to construct tests: WebDriver (browsers) and WebElements (anything on a web page). In Selenium 2, every API library is now tailored to each programming language for easier usability.
  • Enhanced scalability – The new Selenium 2 architecture allows developers and QA teams to “scale up and down”. For a single test on a local machine, you no longer need a background server. But when you want to scale up to run tests across multiple machines with multiple browser configurations, Selenium has all the power you’ll need.
  • Improved architecture – The new Selenium 2 architecture has enabled the introduction of a number of features that developers and QA pros will love, including native keyboard, support for mouse events, improved capabilities for handling pop-ups, and more stable browser control.

To join us, please click here to register. If you were wondering if Sauce Labs supports Selenium 2 testing the cloud, the answer is yes :-)

See you next week!

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Video: Using Bamboo Sauce Plugin

November 12th, 2010 by Ashley Wilson

In case you missed the Bamboo webinar yesterday, here’s a short video that walks you through integrating Bamboo with Sauce OnDemand. Thanks to Jonathan Doklovic and Systems Bliss for creating the Bamboo Sauce Plugin (available for download here), and for providing us with a great tutorial!

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Video Demo: RSpec + Selenium + Sauce OnDemand

October 6th, 2010 by Ashley Wilson

Thanks to all who tuned in to our live web demo last week, Using RSpec + Selenium to Test Your Ruby Builds Faster. Sauce Labs Developer Sean Grove walked attendees through the steps of writing an RSpec test and using it with Selenium, and then showed how to run that test across multiple browsers in the cloud using Sauce OnDemand.

For those of you who missed it, check out Sean’s sample code on Github (http://github.com/sgrove/rspec_sauce_webinar), and then follow along with the video below. We’re planning another Ruby-based webinar in the future, so make sure to subscribe to our blog’s RSS feed to stay up to date!

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RSpec + Selenium Demonstration 9/30 at 11 am PST

September 21st, 2010 by Ashley Wilson

Join Sean Grove, senior developer at Sauce Labs, as he shows you how to take your RSpec tests and pit ‘em against the real world. RSpec is a Ruby framework that provides a Domain Specific Language that expresses executable examples of the expected behavior of your code.

Learn how to launch and control real browsers directly from RSpec tests using Selenium and Sauce OnDemand. In this live video demontration on Sept. 30 at 11 am PST, he’ll demonstrate and discuss:

* Writing your first RSpec test
* Configuring it to use Selenium
* Cross-browser testing and spec parallelization

Be sure to stick around for the Q&A following the presentation. Register Here!

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Kohsuke Kawaguchi Demos Cross Browser Testing with Hudson + Sauce OnDemand

September 3rd, 2010 by Ashley Wilson

As part of our featured webinar series, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Hudson and founder of InfraDNA, recently led an interactive demonstration on using Hudson with Selenium and Sauce OnDemand. In case you missed the live presentation on September 1, check out the recorded video to learn more about:

1. Setting up the Hudson plugin for Sauce OnDemand
2. How using Hudson for CI will drastically speed up your testing process
3. Tips for integrating Hudson with Selenium Grid
4. Tips for integrating Hudson with Sauce OnDemand

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How to Automate Testing of your Flash and Flex Apps

August 11th, 2010 by Ashley Wilson

A few weeks ago, we announced the Sauce Flash/Flex Testing System, a new and innovative way to automatically test your apps built with Flash and Flex.

The first functional testing product to support test automation for hybrid web apps, Sauce Flash/Flex Testing System bundles Flex-Pilot’s object explorer API into Sauce IDE, and uses Sauce OnDemand to run tests across multiple browsers in the cloud.

Flex Pilot co-creator Adam Christian, a developer here at Sauce Labs, recently led an informative webinar demonstrating how to setup and use this complete testing system. Watch the video below to learn how easy it is to start testing your Flash and Flex apps today!

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