Posts Tagged ‘Meetups’

Testing Your Mobile Apps with Selenium 2 and Frank

March 30th, 2011 by Ashley Wilson

In case you missed our last SF Selenium Meetup, check out video below of the two great presentations on mobile testing. Pete Hodgsen, a software consultant with Thoughtworks, discussed how to use Frank, a new testing framework he’s involved in developing, for automated acceptance testing of native iOS apps. Jason Huggins, creator of Selenium and co-founder of Sauce Labs, followed this by demoing how to test Android and iPhone applications using Selenium 2.

Many thanks to our friends at CoTweet for co-hosting and making this last meetup such a success! If you think your company might be interested in hosting a future meetup, please get in touch. Our next meetup will be in early May at Mozilla (we’re skipping April because of the Selenium Conference happening next week). Stay tuned for more details!

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#SFSE Video: Selenium Problem Solving Sessions

March 2nd, 2011 by Ashley Wilson

A new year of San Francisco Selenium Meetups got off to a great start with our February meetup, hosted by our friends at OPOWER. Attendees were treated to four different presentations by:

  • Eric Allen, a developer at Sauce Labs, who spoke about the different ways you can (and should) use Selenium’s Proxy Server
  • Dan Fabulich, Senior QA Engineer at Redfin, who shared a technique for using Selenium to automatically test files on a disk
  • Lalitha Padubidri, Lead QA Engineer at Riverbed, who gave attendees a glimpse into the Python-based Selenium infrastructure that Riverbed has built out, and
  • Alois Reitbauer, Technology Strategist at dynaTrace Software, who demonstrated how to integrate your Selenium tests with dynaTrace Ajax, a free tool that analyzes performance and functional problems.

In case you missed the event, check out the video below for the full presentations. And if you haven’t joined the SF Selenium Meetup group, well, get to it :) We meet once a month at different venues around the city to mingle, drink beer, eat pizza, and hear various presentations on Selenium. It’s not only a grand ol’ time, but it’s free. Next meetup is March 16 at Co-tweet. Details to come soon.

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#SFSE Meetup: Selenium Lightning Talks at Sauce Labs

January 5th, 2011 by Ashley Wilson

To round out an exciting year of #SFSE meetups, we invited members of the group to give lightning talks on a Selenium topic of their choice for our December meetup at Sauce Labs.

Seven brave people took to the stage and the resulting meetup was, as hoped for, memorable, entertaining, and enlightening (I, for one, never knew Selenium could be used so creatively for non-testing purposes!). In case you missed it, check out the video below to see how members of the growing Selenium community are taking advantage of the testing framework.

We’ve got another great year of meetups planned, so if you’re in the Bay Area, consider joining the San Francisco Selenium meetup group. We hold free monthly meetups in and around the city, and it’s a great chance to geek out with other Selenium enthusiasts :) Hope to see you at a meetup soon!

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#SFSE Video – Pivotal Labs’ Davis Frank Discusses Jasmine Framework

October 18th, 2010 by Ashley Wilson

For our September #SFSE meetup, Davis W. Frank, software engineer and agile coach at Pivotal Labs, gave a great talk on Jasmine, an open source Javascript testing framework developed by Pivotal Labs. Jasmine is flexible in that it’s not tied to any browser, framework, or platform, and can be easily integrated into your current Rails project.

In case you missed it, watch the full presentation below. If you’re interested in following along with the specific code Davis used, clone the Github repo here. Jasmine has a very active developer community. If you’d like to get involved further, check here for more resources.

Many thanks to our friends at Trulia for hosting this meetup! The next one will be this Thursday, 10/21, at Twitter. Michael Cohen, creator of Lebowski Framework, will be on hand to discuss automatic testing of SproutCore apps. Click here for more info and to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

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