SeleniumConf Berlin 2017
2017-10-09..2017-10-10
Berlin, Germany
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Selenium State of the Union, To Infinity and Beyond | Simon Mavi Stewart | 46m |
WebDriver is now a W3C specification stuck at proposed recommendation, with two working implementations—geckodriver and IEDriver—and an extensive stat test… | ||
| Keeping Your Tests Lean | Meaghan Lewis | 26m |
An old UI suite of 1,000+ tests becomes manageable by deleting redundant cases, splitting tests into feature sub-suites, and running classes in parallel so… | ||
| The What, Why and How of Web Analytics Testing | Anand Bagmar | 41m |
Tests analytics at the source using browser DevTools or a proxy to inspect requests, avoiding late-stage report surprises; uses an open source web analytics… | ||
| Care and Feeding of Open Source Developers: A Framework for Successful Communication | Patty Evans | 31m |
Adapts John Gottman’s relationship research into a concrete toolkit for open‑source projects: a Sound Relationship Framework built on a five‑to‑one… | ||
| Selenium Hacks | Andrew Krug de Medina | 31m |
A rapid tour of concrete Selenium techniques and what actually worked: run headless browsers with Xvfb or Headless Chrome (Chrome 59+ Linux/Mac, 64+ Windows)… | ||
| The Death of Liberal Arts | Ashley Hunsberger | 46m |
Argues that humanities skills—communication, logic, rhetoric, empathy—directly improve testing and automation strategy, with a 150-person survey showing 73%… | ||
| Codeless Visual Testing | Doron Zavelevsky | 26m |
Argues that record‑playback tools become practical visual testers by pairing Selenium Builder with Applitools to drive and compare full‑page screenshots… | ||
| Selenium and the Four Rules of Simple Design | Thomas Sundberg | 40m |
Live coding that starts with a single long brittle Selenium WebDriver Java test and iteratively refactors it into focused helpers, renaming driver→browser… | ||
| Zero to Test, How to Run Your First Beta Testing Program | Crystal C. Yan | 32m |
A small team builds and launches the FiscalNote iOS app after a 4 months push with one QA, one QA intern and a growing iOS dev team; beta testing surfaces… | ||
| Good, Cheap, and Fast, Scaling Your Selenium Grid in the Cloud | Johnathan Constance | 34m |
Company runs ~10,000 browser tests per day and migrates a static, undersized Selenium Grid onto AWS using EC2/Lambda/DynamoDB, Datadog metrics and a Lambda… | ||
| Readable. Stable. Maintainable. E2E Testing @ Facebook | Archit Pal Singh Sachdeva | 23m |
Facebook replaces raw WebDriver scripts with a component-based, page-object style framework that makes E2E tests declarative and typed, hiding find/click… | ||
| SeConf Berlin Panel Discussion - Testing Horror Stories | 30m | |
Multiple teams recount concrete failures: a hastily adopted Java + Maven on a Node app causes maintenance isolation, companies juggle three competing… | ||
| Adding Performance Assertion to Standard Functional Testing | Marcel Verkerk | 42m |
GoDaddy builds a small Node/Express webservice called cicd-perf-api that testers call from Selenium WebDriver: the service injects JavaScript that reads the… | ||
| Your Tests Aren’t Flaky, You Are! | Richard Bradshaw | 31m |
Argues that flaky checks come from design and people choices not Selenium or the internet, cites Google’s analysis (bigger checks show more failure but size is… | ||
| The Digital Divide and Test Automation | Katrina Clokie | 42m |
Framework frames team contribution as a Venn of access, skills, motivation and maps roles like teachers observers advocates to concrete outcomes: Team 1 (bank)… | ||
| Scalable Selenium Cluster: Up & Running | Ivan Krutov | 31m |
Claims a production cluster with >5,000 browsers, 1.5M sessions/day, ~4,000 requests/sec and ~800 Mbps traffic built using Dockerized browsers and a… | ||
| Using Selenium in the Verification and Validation Process for Medical Device Software | Lydia Tripp | 29m |
Automated verification for FDA-style medical device software produces a 100+ page V&V with change control and hundreds of iterations, where 25–30 automated V&V… | ||
| What The Doc?!?! How to Write and Read Documentation That Allows You To Get Sh*t Done! | Kim Crayton | 33m |
Argues that documentation saves support time and onboarding effort by giving concrete fixes: provide a big red newbie button that shows the first three steps… | ||
| My Story of Microservices Testing | Aleksandr Martiushov | 28m |
Generates HTTP clients from Swagger/OpenAPI and publishes Java artifacts to Nexus so tests always use Swagger-generated Java clients; wraps clients in an… | ||
| REST APIs and WebDriver: In Perfect Harmony | Mark Winteringham | 29m |
Demo shows combining HTTP requests with WebDriver cuts setup time and flakiness by creating and manipulating state outside the UI. Using Postman and Rest… | ||
| Automating Multi-Factor Authentication | Or Polaczek | 30m |
Demos show three concrete automation paths and the caveats: Twilio webhook SMS reception buys a virtual number and captures SMS into a logfile, which works… | ||
| Build a Successful Team: Motivate Your Software Tester | Petra Bouskova | 29m |
A two‑year 700‑participant survey finds most testers report motivation but quit over poor onboarding, lack of recognition and micromanagement. Practical fixes… | ||
| Lightning Talks | William soft-touch | 31m |
A free Chrome extension generates CSS/XPath selectors that balance stability and robustness by combining a persistent anchor with a short path, using custom… | ||
| Committers Panel | 57m | |
Panel covers concrete migration and contribution steps: use switch to Firefox ESR and set marionette=false when moving older suites, then test, upgrade to the… | ||
| Appium For Couch Potatoes | Christian Bromann | 30m |
Built an Appium HbbTV driver that translates WebDriver commands into Chrome DevTools calls via a devtools-backend proxy, injecting an instrumentation script… | ||
| Ex Machina: The Framework That Knows its Bugs | Aneta Petkova | 35m |
Framework integrates TestNG + Selenium (Java) with JIRA via REST calls (REST-assured), using TestNG groups/annotation-transformer to attach ticket IDs, a… | ||
| SeleniumConf Berlin 2017 Highlights | 01m | |
A rapid highlights reel that claims proximity to experienced testers boosts learning and urges hover around, absorb and learn, insists not done until it's in… | ||
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