Project Members Panel

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Panel answers why contributing is hard: dozens of repos, weak contributor docs, and setup friction for local builds, so priorities are better contribution docs and onboarding videos and repo cleanup. Roadmap items: Appium 3 and iOS over‑WiFi (remote XPC) and WebDriver BiDi features like network interception, script injection and per‑window context that enable parallel, cross‑browser tooling. Advice to newcomers: learn testing fundamentals, race conditions, and how protocols (session → click) actually work rather than chasing tool hype.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 1:02Panel introduction
3. 3:11Selenium and Appium future
4. 6:21Change one thing in Selenium
5. 12:02AI impact on QA
6. 14:32Playwright features vs Selenium
7. 20:19Advice for new testers
8. 26:24AI tested flight software
9. 30:00AI as applied statistics
10. 31:01Selenium and Appium future
11. 36:46Playwright impact
12. 39:13Open source stories
13. 46:46Managing third-party integrations
14. 47:30Favorite languages
15. 49:18Favorite moments 2025
16. 52:34Raffle and closing

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