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Google releases Chrome 6 beta.

Matt Rees - Cloud Testing — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:29:30 +0000

In this latest release is a 15 per cent speed improvement on the V8 and SunSpider javascript benchmarks, as well as a few of the new features including Autofill, a streamlined upper toolbar, made the Omnibox more approachable, and condensed all of the options into a single menu.

97% of Chrome users running the latest version compared to 85% for Firefox and 53% for Safari

Matt Rees - Cloud Testing — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:21:39 +0000

According to “Why Silent Updates Boost Security” (download PDF), 97% of Chrome users were running the latest version of the browser within 21 days of the last update’s release.

By comparison, 85% of Firefox users were up-to-date in the same span, while only 53% Safari users could say the same.

The Chrome browser is auto updated, with no option to stop this (apart from disabling the Google Auto-Update service). Firefox is hoping to add an auto/silent update feature to Firefox 4.0, which will be enabled by default, but can be turned off.

Running Cross Browser tests with Selenium and Cloud Testing

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:40:39 +0000

Once you have uploaded your Selenium script into your Cloud Testing account, one of the many things you can do is run a Cross Browser test. This will allow you to compare screenshots, captured HTML and components of the various steps in your user journey in the browsers that we currently support:

Internet Explorer ( 6, 7 & 8 )
Firefox ( 2, 3 & 3.5)
Safari (3.2 & 4.0)
Opera (9.6 & 10.0)
Google Chrome (2.0 & 3.0)

Select script

First select the script you want to test from the list available in your project.

You can of course upload another one if you need one, directly from Selenium IDE.

Enter details of test

You can enter a name for the test, along with relevant notes such as which server it was run against, which release from SVN or CVS etc.

Select browsers

Next you need to select which browsers you want it run on.

If you have an Enterprise subscription, you will be able to choose from your own Private agents, otherwise you will be offered the currently available Public agents.

You can now schedule the test to be run. It will be run on our Cloud Testing agents – you don’t need to do anything more for now – you can check on the progress by looking at the Pending Runs tab.

Viewing the results

Once the tests have completed, you can view the overview of each of the script runs.

You can then choose to either view one step in all browsers (by clicking on the ‘Compare these Test Runs’ magnifier icon).

Alternatively you can choose to view a complete run in a single browser – in this case Google Chrome.

You can then either view the HTML, Components or a full size screenshot of the browser window (compared to the thumbnail).

Test results, screenshots, HTML and components will be stored in line with the package you purchased. Additional storage can always be added when required.

For full details of the services and features available from Cloud testing see www.cloudtesting.com

Update – 9th October 2009 – New Cross Browser compare thumbnails view