selenium-vba: Automate the Web

Backstory

Cloud based web applications are amazing, they make life so much simpler. What they've done is effectively eliminated the numerous problems associated with deploying applications within a business. Now, it doesn't matter what operating system, configuration settings, etc. are installed on the machine, the cloud rains down a consistent user experience by simply using a compatible web browser. Awesome stuff, really.

Now, lets get back to the real world. The web was designed for documents and extended to include visual/audio media. Tack on some client side scripting and bang!: interaction and logical processing becomes feasible. All of the wonderful developments bring us awesome things like Facebook, Wordpress, Cloud9 IDE, and a whole slew of other amazing things. There's a catch, of course, and it has everything to do with bandwidth.

Selenium Extension: RecordMouseDownUp

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Today I wrote another extension for the Selenium IDE: RecordMouseDownUp. This has been tested with the Selenium IDE 1.7.2 and is known to work on standard devices (my friend said someone's making a sex toy for the iPad; If you happen to try it out and this extension works as expected, keep it a secret you perv! :O )

Selenium Extensions: RecordSpecialKeys, RecordAllClicks

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Today I wrote two extensions for the Selenium IDE: RecordSpecialKeys and RecordAllClicks. These have been tested with the Selenium IDE 1.7.2 and are known to work on even the most convoluted web cloud app-ish bullshit, except for the meta key in RecordSpecialKeys.js: that's untested. If someone tries it out and the meta key works like the rest of the keys, let me know. ;)