December 2012 Summaries

The text discusses how to get the most out of Selenium with CloudBees and Sauce Labs. It answers questions about deploying applications to CloudBees, running tests against different JBoss instances, moving code changes to the cloud, using SSH, testing behind firewalls, selecting multiple browser/OS combinations, configuring Jenkins build jobs, and more. The text also mentions that the Sauce plugin for Jenkins supports various languages, including Node.js, Ruby, .NET, and PHP, and provides information on how to use the Sauce Clickstarts for CloudBees with one click.

Announcing "Open Sauce" free unlimited testing for Open Source projectsFor about a year, we've been quietly giving free testing support to some high profile open source projects, like Mozilla and the Selenium Project. As open source advocates and contributors ourselves, we know it's important to support projects that we benefit from on a regular basis. And what better way to do it then by providing the infrastructure that helps ensure new releases are fully tested? Given that history, we are very excited to announce today that we're taking this effort one huge leap forward and providing free "Open Sauce" accounts to any OSS project that could benefit from our automated and manual cross-browser testing services. If you have an open source project, simply sign up here and enter in your project's repository URL and a description of what it is. You'll automatically be enrolled in the plan, which provides unlimited testing minutes on up to three parallel VMs and access to all our features, including 96+ OS/browser combos, screenshots, debugging tools and more. In exchange, we just ask that you agree you will only use this account for your OSS project(s) and that all of your test results (videos, screenshots, and the Selenium log for Selenium testing) will be publicly accessible. For more info, visit our Open Sauce page or sign up for an account.

The Sauce extension for Arquillian Drone simplifies the integration testing of Java EE applications using Arquillian, a tool that greatly simplifies the integration testing of Java EE applications. To use the extension, include the required dependency in your Maven pom.xml file and add specific properties to your arquillian.xml file, such as your Sauce username and browser type. This allows for easy configuration of the Java EE container and WebDriver/Selenium settings, resulting in less code and a more centralized location for these configurations.