June 2012 Summaries

The new feature allows for more complex team designs, including the ability to designate certain accounts as admin accounts which can manage other subaccounts and form an arbitrary team structure. The administrators can now view all subaccounts and their descendants in a tree-like hierarchy, making it easier to navigate and manage their teams. This change also provides rollup mode, which shows total usage for each account and its descendants, allowing for better comparison of usage across different subsections of the team. Setting up this hierarchy is straightforward, with admins being able to designate themselves as administrators and view all subaccounts. The new features aim to make managing testing teams more streamlined and efficient.

Gollum is an open source wiki software used by GitHub.com, Nature, and others. It uses Selenium WebDriver with JUnit to test its live preview feature, which requires a real browser. To improve testing, Sauce Labs' Cloud was used to run tests in parallel across multiple browsers on different operating systems. The use of parameterization and meaningful test names enabled the tests to be consolidated into one file while maintaining their individuality. Leveraging the hosted cloud option allowed the tests to complete quickly, reducing the time required for testing. The results are reported using tools such as behrica's test watcher and saucerest-java, enabling the tests to run successfully on multiple environments.