“A Smattering of Selenium #90” was a brief link roundup by Adam Goucher, published on the official Selenium site on June 19, 2012. It gathered reading on testing, programming, and WebDriver tooling; it was not a Selenium release announcement or a guide to current tools.
What was in the roundup?
Goucher’s post linked to a varied set of technical reading rather than focusing exclusively on Selenium. Its topics included:
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- Programmers’ assumptions about time.
- Concurrency and parallelism.
- A Wired item about Netflix and an open-source project called “Cloud Monkeys.”
- A Python introspection technique.
- webdry, described in the roundup as a Python wrapper for DRY-oriented access to Selenium WebDriver.
- Using jQuery with Selenium.
- A humorous item about record-and-playback.
- An argument that checking can enable testing.
- The book Pragmatic Unicode.
The roundup supplies brief framing and links, not independent verification of the linked articles’ claims. These references are a snapshot of what Goucher collected in 2012; the post does not establish whether the named projects, recommendations, or linked material remain current. Read the original post.
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Why does the date and schedule note matter?
The post’s irregular timing is part of its context. Goucher wrote, “Eventually I’ll get back on the once-a-week schedule. But not today!” The remark explains that this installment was not presented as part of a reliably weekly cadence.
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The official Selenium archive also lists the post among its 2012 entries and dates it June 19. See the Selenium 2012 archive.
What can—and cannot—be taken from it today?
It is useful as an archival reading list showing the range of topics that appeared in a Selenium community roundup at the time: testing ideas, general programming concepts, and WebDriver-related tools. It should not be read as current Selenium news, a present-day endorsement of the linked projects, or evidence that any linked tool is still maintained.
Pragmatic Unicode is the only clearly named physical-product opportunity in the post, under the phrase “More reasons to go shopping!” The post does not verify a current edition, format, retailer listing, or availability.
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