Keynote Address – Bret Pettichord

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Argument: recorders sell well but recorders fail in practice — they produce brittle, unmaintainable tests and vendors win on sales not engineering. Evidence: teams succeed by building layered frameworks and abstractions like page-object patterns and running tests from CI, not by clicking-record. Historical tools named: Silk Test, Mercury/QA Partner, Watir and Selenium (IDE vs WebDriver). Notable blocker: per-seat licenses of $5k–$10k prevent dev/build adoption. Recommendation: deprecate the HTML-table API — call it Selenium Zero.

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