Keynote Address – Patrick Lightbody
summary
A short history and practical status report: an early Excel-driven test runner using HTMLUnit leads to the creation of Selenium IDE (2005), then Remote Control, Grid and WebDriver (2008) as the core automation pieces. The ecosystem now runs over a million Selenium/WebDriver tests a day, one project moved 22 TB in an hour for Groupon, and BrowserMob explores Selenium for load testing at ~$30–$60/hour on EC2. Documentation, builds and IDE-to-code migration remain the main actionable problems needing contributors.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:04History of Selenium
- 10:00Open Source Ecosystem
- 11:33Commercial Ecosystem
- 15:52Personal Pet Peeves
- 18:26Lack of Clarity
- 19:50Documentation
- 21:30Builds
- 23:33Selenium IDE
- 25:28Get Involved
- 26:09Join the Developers List
- 26:57Join the IRC
- 27:19Build the code
- 28:06Automated testing
- 29:42Future of Selenium
- 30:00No one really knows
- 30:26Selenium is an umbrella
- 33:13Everyone starts with selenium
- 33:23Whats missing
- 34:18HTML Sweet
- 35:30A New Project
- 37:06Challenge
