Hi All

We have moved the forum to http://forum.brominefoundation.org and you are more then welcome to ask any questions here

We have also create a twitter account so you can follow the day-to-day development of Bromine, follow us here: http://twitter.com/brominedev

Cheers,

Jeppe, Rasmus & Visti

The Bromine Dev team

Hi all.

We're pretty excited about the upcoming release of Bromine 3 RC1. It should be coming out before the end of februar if all goes well.

To easen the upgrade process and to facilitate a rapid upgrade process with future updates as well we've developed an auto-update plugin.

Basically you get access to both new stable versions as well as the bleeding edge SVN revisions. You just press upgrade and everything is handled for you, including database changes.

It's pretty cool if we are to say it ourselves

Anyways, as upgrading is a major process with files being overwritten and deleted and so on we need to test this on a couple of platforms before we release it into the wild.

Basically you'll need to install a fresh copy of Bromine 3, install the update plugin and do a couple of upgrades.

So if you'd like to get some insight into the new version of Bromine 3 and help us out it would be greatly appreciated.

You can drop me a mail at rasmus(at)bromine.dk if you're up for it.

Cheers, Rasmus.

Sauce RC: making remote control easy

Sauce RC makes Selenium Remote Control easy for the world, not just those who eat, sleep and breathe code. It comes with a simple installer, and a management GUI that makes using Selenium RC super easy!

Check out the video from Jason Huggins, on how to use Sauce RC:

http://saucelabs.saucerc.s3.amazonaws.com/sauce-rc.mov

But wait, that's not all! As part of the community, we use Selenium extensively for our business and we wouldn't be doing Sauce RC if we werent going to contribute everything back to it.

Sauce RC is Open Source and as soon as we clean up the code, we will release it on GitHub, for the world to read, learn and use.

We hope you download Sauce RC, use it and tell us what you think of it.

Hi all

Bromine will now get RSS feeds from this blog and show them in the control panel. This way we will keep you updated.

Visti, Rasmus & Jeppe

The Bromine Team

Hi all,

Bromine 3 beta has now been out for a little over a month.

We would really like your feedback on different subjects:

• What functionality does it need compete with the commercial tools on the marked?
• Is the documentation of any help?
• Is it difficult to install / setup? If yes, what is the issue?
• Is Bromine intuitive? Please describe why / why not
• Is it a problem what it only works correct in FireFox 3.5?
• Are you updating Bromine 3 beta regularly through SVN ?
• Any other comments is appreciated!
  

To help us further, please register Bromine 3 after you have downloaded it, by clicking ‘Register’ at the bottom after logging in to the system.

The Bromine Team

Jeppe, Rasmus and Visti

As the title states we have released a beta version of Bromine 3.

We hope that a lot of you will give it a spin and report any bugs you find so we can fix them asap. We have been working very hard to get this release ready and done our best to find as many bugs as possible before releasing this beta version.

As most of you probably already have read in our previous blog posts, Bromine 3 has been completely remodeled for a more intuitive user experience which should easen the user load when manageing the requirements, test cases and test scripts as well as running the test scripts.

Bromine 3 is not just a new user interface, we have done extensive work on how the test scripts are executed and how the results are handled from the test script and into Bromine.

We have used the experience we gathered while developing, maintaning and supporting Bromine in the last couple of years to bring you the best in handling your Selenium scripts. We truly believe Bromine 3 achieves this.

Now check it out:

Primary: http://bromine.openqa.org/releases/bromine3b.zip

Installation instructions can be found here http://wiki.openqa.org/display/BR/Home

If you get stuck we will be happy to answer any question in our forum.

Best regards,

The Bromine team

We hope Sel Community is benifitted greatly with the new Sel documentation available here.

Our selenium committer Santi has created a PDF version of Sel documentation and it is available here.

This is the offline version of selenium doc and would let one learn selenium even when not on Internet.

As always - Please let us know you comments/feedback on this.

~ T

Hi fellas. Just felt like teasing you all a bit. Bromine 3 is coming along. Brace yourself

Watch the blog for future updates

This is a bug fix release with the following changes:

* Upgraded Selenium RC to 1.0.1

* Better error message when there is no registered

  remote control for a requested environment.

* Direct link to FAQ in Hub console

* Change Examples to target Google Video: Flickr

   randomly drops some requests causing test timeouts

The CubicTest team is proud to announce the release of CubicTest 1.9.6.

This is mainly a bugfix release, but it has some important new features:

• More robust page element identification: Contexts now uses child elements for identification.
• Custom Test Step definitions can now request auto wait for page to load before entering the step.
• Many bug fixes and usability improvements (see Release Notes)

The new version is based on Selenium 1.0.1.

CubicTest is as always available both as an Eclipse plug-in and as a Rich Client version.

To upgrade, first uninstall the previous version.

Download CubicTest 1.9.6

We hope you like the CubicTest way of web testing!

- Christian and the CubicTest team

Get the 0.2.1 release here.

Ok, we had a nasty bug: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/ST-52 which prompted us to do an interim release prior to 0.3.

Essentially, multiple tags of the same type are not all parsed and recorded. It was a "one-line code change" - a regex wasn't working quite right.  The good news is, we have a fix in this release, and we urge you to upgrade to it while we work on 0.3. The bad news is, for Windows users, you will need to first uninstall 0.2, then install 0.21. From now on we should be able to upgrade normally.

Thanks to Ben Kelly and Jared Quinert for their hard work with this release.

While it's technically been out for a few weeks, we hadn't officially announced it: The 1.0 versions of Selenium IDE and Selenium RC have been released. You can download them here. These releases include several important bug fixes and, most importantly, a brand new set of documentation that we hope will further accelerate Selenium adoption.

We know it's been a long time coming (5 years), but we are happy to report that we have a renewed energy in the Selenium team and don't expect future releases to take nearly as long. In fact, 1.0.1 was released before we could even announced 1.0! Even better, a lot of fantastic work is being done on Selenium 2.0 by the Web Driver team. But none of that would have been possible without two specific groups of people:

• Our new Selenium developers: Over the years there have been a lot of passionate and committed developers for this project. But this final 1.0 release could not have been done without our newest Selenium developer: András Hatvani. Andras has helped transform the Selenium project from a neat tool that was "stuck in a rut" to an active project with a new lease on life. His work was instrumental in allowing us to finally release version 1.0.
• The documentation team: we knew that one of the biggest problems with Selenium was the documentation. Thankfully, a dedicated group of Selenium end-users took on the challenge to build brand new, consolidated documentation. These docs are EXCELLENT and are the result of a true labor of love by some truly amazing individuals. Please thank the following people if you run across them in the Selenium community: Paul Grandjean, Dave Hunt, Santiago Suarez Ordonez, Tarun Kumar, Mary Ann May-Pumphrey, and Peter Newhook.

Finally, a big thank you to the entire community is in order. We appreciate your dedication to Selenium over the years and we promise you that there's a lot more exciting things to come this year!

Patrick & the entire Selenium team

On the wiki page Issue Management in OpenQA projects with JIRA I have described a few months ago what I perceive as important and helpful when managing issues. Now I extended it and therefore I think it's important to make a note about it.

Conforming to the rules has benefits for both, user and developer as the issues get resolved sooner and the overhead of placing unnecessary comments can be eliminated.

The sections described are:

• Before you commit make sure that...
• Issue templates
• Issue reproducibility
• Attachments
• Patches

The rules are quite simple and based on best practices, so I hope that everyone in the community can adhere to them.

We've released the 0.2 Beta of Session Tester. Get it from the download page here. This is a minor release. The focus of this release was on installers for Windows and Mac. We did a bit of work exploring ideas that will be realized in the 0.3 release, but decided to cut this off and ship it once the installers worked. There were some behind-the-scenes changes to make things easier for a growing development team. Thanks to developer Chris Garrett for driving this release.

You'll notice some changes:

• Windows installer
• Mac installer
• Some new tags
• Fixed HTML formatting bug
• Extend button - adds 5 minutes to the session
• a couple of bug fixes.

There are bugs, such as the timestamp isn't getting picked up in the XML files, the duration tag is not getting recorded properly and probably others. Installers were the major work in this release. With the installers out of the way, we can now focus on 0.3 to address community feedback.

Happy testing!

-the ST Team