Have done a bit more tweaking of the code so I’ve got a home rolled blogging type platform. It took longer than I thought and probably should have used some sort of framework type thing to make the development faster. It is re-inventing the wheel, but it’s kinda fun doing your own thing.
I’ve also come across Selenium, a test tool for web applications/sites, and have been playing with it in the past couple of days. It rocks!
Testing forms and websites is a laborious and extremely tedious process, but you can automate it using Selenium - repeatable tests that save you time and sanity! It’s a really sweet and impressive bit of software, watching the tests being run in the browser is fun.
What’s more the Selenium IDE firefox extension makes creating tests simple and intuitive. It can record your actions in the browser, or you can write the tests yourself. It’s most definitely better than alright!
“Better than alright”? Selenium is wicked cool. I’ve had a little bit of trouble writing selectors for completely Javascript-generated content, and I’ve had to manually add some waitForPageLoad events, but other than that it does what it says it will do. I wish you could drag and drop to re-order tests though!