Episode 91: Check the police blotter in Mountain View

Chris and Ed do an extremely rare daytime recording of the show
on the American Memorial Day holiday. But why is a Canadian not
working on an American Holiday? You’ll have to tune in to find
out why along with some thoughts on mentoring and why the current
crop of browser-centric testing tools are completely shit.


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Please support Ed’s efforts to make OSMI his main gig!

Both Chris and Ed will be at CakeFest 2017

WebDriver is an API in heavy use at Mozilla (and elsewhere)
for doing browser automation work

Ed talked about a testing tool called Fake from his webOS
development days that promoted a very different testing paradigm

Chris has done browser automation in PHP using Behat, Mink
and a lot of swearing

Most current browser-centric UI testing tools are Rube
Goldberg machines

Great blog post from the ClojureScript community showing off
property-based testing and immutibility

Also some great work being done in PHPUnit with snapshot
testing