A Smattering of Selenium #105 was a short Selenium community link roundup by Adam Goucher, published on July 30, 2012. Its nine items ranged from WebDriver and Selenium discussions to file-download practices, developer tools, and Mac OS X setup. The “105” is the series issue number—not a Selenium version.
What the 2012 roundup covered
Goucher’s post gathered links and brief commentary rather than announcing a Selenium release. The topics reflect the web-automation community and developer environment of the time.
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- OAuth and API providers: A discussion of OAuth and API providers, which Goucher connected to Selenium’s then-ongoing move toward W3C standardization.
- WordPress error handling: A critique of the difficulty of handling errors intelligently in a legacy installation base.
- Heroku Dev Center: Heroku’s request list for articles for its Dev Center.
- WebDriver and HTTP status codes: Jim Evans’s response to a question about why WebDriver does not expose HTTP status codes. Goucher suggested using a proxy in this context.
- Finding an unused port: A shell script for locating a valid, unused listening port, with Grid nodes mentioned as a possible use.
- Downloading files with Selenium: An article on file downloads that questioned whether browser automation was the right tool for the job and discussed status-code checks and proxies.
- Selenium RC support: A report that BIDPOM had dropped Selenium RC support. Goucher speculated that other projects might do the same over the following year.
- Objective-C: An Apple Developer article about the programming language.
- Mountain Lion and the shell: Articles about PATH and environment settings in Mac OS X 10.7, as well as new UNIX commands in Mountain Lion, including
caffeinate.
These are the roundup’s descriptions and the author’s reactions; they are not independent verification of the linked articles’ claims.
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The post links discussion of WebDriver’s HTTP-status-code behavior and describes Selenium as moving toward W3C standardization. It also records Goucher’s prediction, prompted by the BIDPOM item, that additional projects might drop Selenium RC support. Those are observations and expectations expressed in 2012, not statements about current Selenium capabilities or the eventual course of those projects.
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The official post contains no named statistic that should be attributed to the roundup. Its publication date was Monday, July 30, 2012; Goucher explained the delay by writing, “This was supposed to go out Friday, but the flu bug I picked up decided to move the schedule about somewhat.”
Source
Read Adam Goucher’s original post, “A Smattering of Selenium #105”, on the Selenium project blog.
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