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“A Smattering of Selenium #90” was a short collection of technology links by Adam Goucher, published on the official Selenium site on June 19, 2012. It covered testing and WebDriver alongside broader programming topics; it was not a Selenium release announcement.
What was in the roundup?
Goucher’s post linked to a varied set of reading rather than reporting on a single Selenium update. Its items included:
- Programmers’ mistaken 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.
These descriptions reflect how the 2012 roundup framed its links; they do not establish the current status of the linked projects or recommendations. Read Goucher’s original post.
Why did the post mention its schedule?
Goucher acknowledged that the roundup was not returning to a weekly schedule that day: “Eventually I’ll get back on the once-a-week schedule. But not today!” The post’s title and date are confirmed in Selenium’s 2012 blog archive.
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Is this a current Selenium update?
No. It is an archival snapshot of links gathered in 2012, spanning Selenium tooling, testing, and general technical reading. It should not be treated as evidence about whether a named tool, project, or book is currently maintained, recommended, or available.
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