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December 9, 2005
The 34th Element
We've just got selenium up and running as part of our test suite for the development. Unfortunately it's not in public so I can't point you to it directly, but I can recommend it as a very useful looking piece of kit.
I've just demoed it to some of the team here at Greenpeace and we're thinking it would be of value on pretty much all our web projects.
There's a demo of Selenium here What there isn't is an explanation of why it's named after the 34th element in the periodic table. Paul?
Posted by Martin Lloyd at December 9, 2005 1:00 PM
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Hi, I cowrote the very first version of Selenium with Paul, and I'm the one who named it "Selenium". According to some web sites, the element selenium is the antidote to mercury poisoning. We thought that was an interesting factoid, so that's how it got its name. This leads to the question, of course, "why were you looking for an antidote to mercury poisioning?" It's an inside joke for professional testers experienced with expensive and proprietary testing tools. :-)
Posted by: Jason Huggins at December 13, 2005 6:09 PM
Ah, that's the second thing I've learned today. Although since I've already forgotten the first maybe I should adjust the count...
Posted by: Martin at December 14, 2005 3:43 PM