Jrandolph - jrandolph.com - Viva la Chipperfish
General Information:
Latest News:
The Future of Web App Testing (and How to Stop It) 10 Oct 2009 | 02:11 am
At the May 28th meeting of the Chicago JavaScript Meetup, I gave the following presentation on trends in web development, and how it’ll affect testing. The talk’s titled “The Future of Web App Testin...
Creating GUIDs in Two Steps or Less 24 Apr 2008 | 08:28 am
If you happen to find yourself needing to create a GUID for your brand new C# program, a Google search for “Create GUID” is the first reasonable thing you might do. Here’s my summary after doing the s...
Testing — Mission Impossible? 5 Apr 2008 | 08:18 am
… test automation created by a siloed QA team working in isolation to reverse-engineer existing software and automate tests against an untestable UI using proprietary tools accessible only to a few se...
A web 2.0 app for uploading and running remote Python code snippets? 14 Mar 2008 | 06:01 am
I know I read about this on reddit within the last week or so… But I just can’t find it! My Google-fu is failing me! Grrrrr. There was a general upload text area form where you copy in your code snipp...
Annoucement: Selenium Users’ Meetup – Monday, February 25 2008 21 Feb 2008 | 02:26 pm
I’ll be attending the Selenium Users Open Evening this Monday, February 25. The event will be at the Google campus in Mountain View, California. Most of the core Selenium development team will be in a...
This is why I love JavaScript and Python, but not Java 30 Jan 2008 | 11:02 am
“Exploratory programming is the fun end of programming, and we hope that will be the guiding principle of the Arc community.” (arclanguage.org) Amen! (And when I do have to work with code on the JVM,...
Me at Google – the 10 month update 9 Nov 2007 | 10:20 pm
[update: yeah, I'm lame. Jan 24 to Nov 9 is (rounding up) 10 months, not 11.] Well, since last I posted… (~10 months!) I’ve been pretty busy. I started at Google eight months ago on March 5th, and so...
Feeling lucky… From ThoughtWorker to Noogler 25 Jan 2007 | 06:13 am
Well, I’ve had six wonderful years in the land of Thinking and Working (aka “The Martin Fowler Company“). Today, however, is my last day at ThoughtWorks. I’ll be packing up my home in Chicago and join...
A new litmus test for evaluating Python web frameworks — What’s your security policy? 11 Aug 2006 | 03:36 am
With the almost daily announcement of new Python-based web frameworks, there needs to be a way to filter the contenders from the pretenders. I’ve been mulling over the idea of compiling a checklist fo...
On Selenium and language design… 2 Aug 2006 | 04:57 am
Lately, I’ve had language design on the brain. In short, I’m working to make Selenium tests Turing complete. Right now, the Selenium Core engine can parse simple command/key-word tests. No looping or ...
