Launching Helium: A Selenium wrapper that makes web automation 50% easier

[Larry Martell]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Michael Herrmann
<michael.herrmann at heliumhq.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working for a startup called BugFree Software and would like to announce that today we're launching our second product!
>
> Helium is a library that wraps around Selenium to simplify web automation. It does away with many of the technicalities involved with web scripting. For example: Here is a Selenium script. Can you guess what it does?
>
>     >>> ff = Firefox()
>     ...
>     >>> text_area = ff.find_element_by_id("u_0_1q")
>     >>> text_area.send_keys("Hello World!")
>     >>> button = ff.find_element_by_class_name("_42g-")
>     >>> button.click()
>
> Here is the same script rewritten using Helium:
>
>     >>> start_firefox()
>     ...
>     >>> write("Hello World!", into="Update Status")
>     >>> click("Post")
>
> Can you now guess what it does? That's right; It updates your Facebook status.
>
> In an extended comparison that we were invited to write for the December issue of Professional Tester (professionaltester.com), we found that an example script automating Gmail took 66% fewer lines of code and 75% less effort using Helium than with Selenium alone.
>
> You can find more information and download Helium from http://heliumhq.com. Any feedback would be highly appreciated.
>
> Hoping to hear your thoughts and comments,

Is this open source?