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20070711

Wrestling with Selenium
We’re trying to use Selenium IDE in our brand spankin’ new QA phase of development (what a concept!) and it’s a steep curve. The basics are easy enough, and explained perfectly well at OpenQA, Selenium’s maker, or in one of a number of good tutorials. But it took us a while to complete the perfectly reasonable quest for a command reference. That is, we’re running into problem we find with tools from time to time (most often, but not always, with open-source projects), viz., that the information exists to get you going, but it’s terribly distributed, not from authoritative sources, and even in the aggregate not comprehensive. It also becomes more fragmented the more advanced it gets; noobs can get started, but advanced documentation is only for specific troubleshooting. Not that we have time to take on this task, either.

Update: Changed link destination for the command ref, as we found what may be the always-current one, with more poking around.

Labels: browsers, development, frustration, open source, testing, tools