April 16
Call to Open Source Developers to work on Tellurium
Posted by Ajay
|I am diverting myself from my usual slew of technical posts to advertise a great open source opportunity to fellow enthusiasts out there. I have been an active player in a very interesting open source project called Tellurium.
In simple terms Tellurium is an automated testing framework for web applications. Imagine a selenium like framework but without many of the disadvantages of selenium, imagine the freedom from having to use long and unwieldly XPath expressions, imagine tests robust enough to maintain themselves as the UI changes.
For a developer imagine the awesomeness and goodness that comes out of using Groovy and JQuery, intrigued?
Come join us, by checking out this link http://code.google.com/p/telluriumsource/wiki/TelluriumCallForParticipation
wow, nice sales pitch!
seriously, that project sounds cool!
he he he…after all life is a big marketing event…..but yeah this is a neat project, uses some very interesting concepts and could give selenium a run for it’s money
Can you please point out “disadvantages of selenium” ? Thanks a lot. I love Selenium IDE. Great way to start preparing tests. One thing i miss in selenium is perf test. Issue with selenium is it runs in a actual browser. Which is good and bad. Good is it takes care of browser in compatibility. Bad is for Perf test we need to start multiple browser and there is no way for Selenium to help me out of the box. Hope you fix these2. WebDriver was interesting concept. Its getting integrated to Selenium in Big way. Hope it fixes it.
@Jigar: One of the main advantages that tellurium offers over selenium is UI mapping, which offers a sizable advantage over selenium’s use of xpath. Xpaths tend to be very dependent on the browser UI design, changing DIV’s around can cause tests to break, tellurium on the other hand uses UI mapping functionality to do the same which is more effective. Another advantage is speed, with our introduction of jQuery. Another advantage of tellurium is bulk data retreival that selenium does not provide. In fact check out this link that has a lot of good information on tellurium and it’s performance compared to selenium: http://notetodogself.blogspot.com/2009/06/tellurium-better-functional-test.html
Yes, your two suggestions are good ideas for selenium, I will definitely propose it to the team. Of course, our strategy has been to consider any user suggestions try to include it, so if you think you might be interested in giving tellurium a try and let us know of any other features we might consider adding, that would be great. Thanks
are you still looking for developers for tellurium?
@Raj: yes we are always looking for help on our project, please goto http://code.google.com/p/telluriumsource/wiki/TelluriumCallForParticipation , and you can get all the information you need