Tuesday Closing Keynote

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Google migrates from Selenium RC to WebDriver across a massive internal test fleet, finishing in March after an October–March push that included manually converting stubborn suites. The infra team builds a browser atoms library, multiple drivers (Chrome, Safari, Opera), and a VM-based grid, removes the RC endpoint and deletes ~100,000 lines of dead code. Scale: 15,000 developers working from head, running north of 3 million browser sessions per day and 100 million tests daily; migration succeeds but requires code cleanup, handling alerts, and avoiding expensive getText/js eval calls.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:14The Golden Age of Selenium
3. 5:46The Rise of the Machines WebDriver
4. 7:23Development at Google
5. 10:24The Browser Atoms
6. 12:33The Selenium Deprecation
7. 13:46A little less carrot, a little more stick
8. 17:40Cleaning up
9. 22:46Prepare Your Tests
10. 23:32WebDriver-backed Selenium
11. 25:05Selenium-backed WebDriver
12. 26:06Alert handling
13. 27:57waitForPageToLoad
14. 28:27getBodyText
15. 29:32Be careful with JavaScript!
16. 30:59Migration made easy

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