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Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

#13

Post by dsun180 »

snowl wrote: post #7

Of course, Selenium (WebDriver) still works. However, this might be the push for people to investigate other test frameworks. I found TestCafe by DevExpress ( https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/ ) is a great tool and is also completely open source (MIT!). It's a shame that the community is so small because it's so powerful. Maybe this might be the push that moves some more people over?

I found out about Testcafe a few weeks ago. It's such a great product but too less people even know about it.

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by pjmlp »

Osmose wrote: post #4

I'd be curious to see what the usage stats on the IDE are; my company (Mozilla, ironically) uses Selenium a ton, but as far as I know we write all of our tests by hand instead of with the IDE since it allows you to use patterns like Page objects to make your tests more maintainable in the long run. Although the last time I used the IDE was years ago, so it may be more flexible than it used to be. Does anyone extensiv…

Back when I was using it (about 4 years ago), we used it mostly as a debugging aid to understand what actually should go into some expressions.

Also some people from QA, without coding skills, would use it.

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by pjmlp »

t0mbstone wrote: post #2

Wow, that's really sad to hear! I wonder if, instead of abandoning the project, they could put together a patron sponsorship to fund further development? I'm sure there are plenty of companies out there that rely on firefox and selenium and would be more than happy to help contribute?

> since the start of the year, there are only 11 people who have made more than 10 commits, with two people accounting for more than half of those. Since 2016, only one person has been maintaining the IDE.

Apparently they are not.

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by mixedCase »

sweep3r wrote: post #11

This is what is going to happen to most extensions. Mozilla is bonkers, doing this. They're going to regret it.

Are they? The old system is holding improvements back. If they move to a superset of Chrome's they can still get Chrome add-ons and then some.

If people value the old extension system that much, then it will live on in one of the FF forks. Regardless Firefox will finally get faster, more responsive, more secure, AND still have a better extension API than Blink/WebKit.

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by 29052017 »

snowl wrote: post #7

Of course, Selenium (WebDriver) still works. However, this might be the push for people to investigate other test frameworks. I found TestCafe by DevExpress ( https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/ ) is a great tool and is also completely open source (MIT!). It's a shame that the community is so small because it's so powerful. Maybe this might be the push that moves some more people over?

Asshole motherfucker madarchod .... Hahaha ... Lol

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by danidiaz »

Test recorders are an antipattern. They lure you with their "no programming required!" siren call, but the generated scripts invaribly end up as a fragile, poorly abstracted mess.

GUI tests suites, especially those created with recorders, are prone to become unmaintainable beasts full of flaky tests.

This old interview with Bret Pettichord makes good points about the use of recorders: https://youtu.be/s_CUPs6xAWw?t=590

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