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James Whittaker recently blogged about his view of the future of test case reuse. He points out that reusable tests (usually automated ones) are heavily dependent on the local machine environment. That is: a reusable test might work on Sally’s computer, but not on Greg’s.

He argues that in the future, this problem will be solved:

In the future we will solve this problem with a concept I call environment-carrying tests (nod to Brent Jensen). Test cases of the future will be written in such a way that they will encapsulate their environment needs within the test case using virtualization. Test cases will be written within virtual capsules that embed all the necessary environmental dependencies so that the test case can run on whatever machine you need it to run on.

We recently published an article on Ajaxian.com titled Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard. This is an excellent overview of the challenges that face testers when working on performance testing for today’s modern web applications. Please check it out and let us know what you think.

Because BrowserMob relies on Selenium to record and play back traffic, we wanted to take a moment to share the latest news in the Selenium world with our BrowserMob customers. On the Selenium blog I just posted the following, which discusses our short-term goals for 2009:

Our two week survey is ending today and the vast majority of you have told us you like the new website. Thank you for the positive support!