No: “A Smattering of Selenium #70” is not a current Selenium update. It is a short historical roundup by Adam Goucher, published on November 23, 2011. Its links range from Selenium scripting and test organization to Ruby packaging, cloud APIs, Python optimization, and a cartoon.
What “A Smattering of Selenium #70” is
The official Selenium blog post is one installment in the “Smattering” series, a collection of links its author found interesting that week. Goucher’s post opens and closes with “That’s it for this week.” The original post and the Smattering archive establish its place in that series.
Because it dates to 2011, read it as a snapshot of software-testing and development interests at the time, not as a release announcement, compatibility guide, or current recommendation. The post itself gives no present-day assessment of the linked projects or articles.
What the roundup links to
Selenium scripts and test organization
- TextMate and Selenium Java: “TextMate-Bundle-Selenium-Java” is suggested for readers using TestMate with Java.
- Writing and interpreting scripts: “Mistakes: Transparency is Best” is introduced as a reminder about Selenium scripts.
- Organizing tests: “Organizing Your Tests” concerns test scripts and tags. Goucher notes that the linked piece leaves out tags, which an associated product supports, but the post does not clearly identify that product.
Wider development and testing topics
- Ruby: “How Do I Create And Publish My First Ruby Gem?” is offered as an example of packaging shared code for internal distribution in large-scale automation.
- Cloud APIs: fog is described as an effort to provide a common API abstraction across cloud providers.
- Test automation practice: “The Secrets of Successful Test Automation” is described as a summary of a recent talk by Lisa Crispin.
- Python: “A Python Optimization Anecdote” is characterized as a step-by-step account of optimizing code.
- Visitor flows: “Introducing Flow Visualization: visualizing visitor flow” is suggested as a way to help choose which application flows to automate first. Goucher adds a joke about blocking Google Analytics.
The unclear Android reference and the cartoon
The post mentions a YouTube video after saying, “Not sure how this will affect automation of Android or not, but still pretty cool.” The rendered post does not identify the video by title or explain what “this” refers to, so it does not support a more specific account of the Android-related item.
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The roundup ends with a cartoon labeled “Development Driven Tests.”
What the post does—and does not—establish
Its entries are brief descriptions of links, not evaluations of whether the tools, projects, or articles remain available, maintained, compatible, or useful today. The post includes no numerical statistic and no substantive verbatim quotation attributed to a named speaker. Lisa Crispin is named as the speaker whose talk a linked summary covers.
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