At IPC 2008 I presented a 60 minutes Session on Making Selenium Test Writing easier using a DSL.
Here the short description:
Implementing automated tests by using Seleniums API methods has several drawbacks. Selenium is great for what it does, providing a generic framework for testing a generic application. Using the Testing_SeleniumDSL framework, I will show you how to create your own Domain Specific Language (DSL), which would allow you to write tests in the language of your business rather than in Seleniums language.
Here is the slide of this session:
Thx for sharing your slides. Great idea, I really like it. I was already thinking on some similar thing after reading a little about RSpec. The big question: how soon will be that soon? ;)
Well, "soon" was chosen to not say any date *g* ... anyway ... due to the workload at studiVZ I guess soon should mean around January 2009 ...
Just stumbled across your presentation - it looks great! I am just starting with Selenium and I can already see the brittleness approaching.
I have the same comment as Hodicska: Any update on the 'how soon' question? :-)
As PHP 5.3 is quite stable now, I'll be continuing with the development right now.