Selenium 2.0 is Out

If you play in web-app testing field, then you might have heard about Selenium. It's basically a testing tool designed for web applications and it has been around for some time. I first noticed it's presence around 2004 when i was working in Jakarta. At that time, i went to an event called JAX Asia and that's when i first met Selenium.

Since then, i have been using it for my personal project and also for my teaching material when i'm teaching for testing processes. It's really a great tool.

The good news is that now they have released Selenium 2.0 which basically a major upgrade which brings many interesting features, such as modern browser support (IE 9, Firefox 5), new WebDriver APIs for Python, Ruby, C#, and Java. I believe this could enrich Selenium base support to even more programming language in the future.

Automated Accessibility Testing

If you think automated accessibility testing is expensive and complex, then think again. Now you can use WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools to help you automate the process. All you need to do is enter your site and let the system do the rest. You can also upload the files or copy the whole code in the textbox and let them verify it. Is that it? No!!! You can also install the toolbar (Firefox extension), use the bookmarket, and add the URL in other application (eg. WebDeveloper extension).

WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility information within your page.

Even though it's marked as Beta, i found it very stable and usable. Try it for yourself and see the results.

One good example of a good website that combines accessibility and creativity is CSSZenGarden. The system found no accessibility errors on that site while it continues to amaze lots of people by it's beauty of design.

NUnitLite

A new unit testing tool has been released to public (it's been a while actually). The new tool is called NUnitLite. It's inspired by NUnit, but it will use minimal resources and be suitable for execution on various classes of devices. Since it's based on NUnit, it will have most of the basic feature of NUnit, but please note that this package is delivered as a source code only, so you won't have GUI like in NUnit, multi-threading features, etc.

One good news is that it will support .NET Framework (including Compact Framework) and Mono. Great application for unit testing.