Introduction (How can testing make our lives easier) What is Selenium? Selenium IDE Trivial Example A Less Trivial Test Case (and some useful commands) Selenium RC Setup An example using Python The Future Additional Resources Reference Tutorials Testivus Introduction (How can testing make our lives easier) Testing is important, saves time, and makes our life
Although we are striving towards integrating testing more closely into our development process we still have a long way to go. I thought this article does a good job of explaining testing philosophy in a fun way. http://www.developertesting.com/archives/month200705/20070502-000424.html To summarize: All code needs to be tested. Ugly tests are better then no tests. Write tests
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