SeleniumConf Chicago 2018
2018-10-18..2018-10-19
Chicago, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Andrew J Krug, Alessandra Moreira, Marcus R Merrell, Ashley Hunsberger, Lydia Tripp | 15m |
Welcome and logistics cover rules, tools and tonight’s social plans: Wi‑Fi: SeleniumConfChicago2018, Code of Conduct on the website with reporting contacts and… | ||
| Level up: playing the automation game | Angie Jones | 48m |
Built a competitive dress-up web app called Diva Chicks web app with hundreds of thousands of players and maps five concrete game design rules to automation… | ||
| The one with the automation | Raluca Morariu | 33m |
A Java + Spring toolkit is built to create and manage test accounts for microservices, wrapping internal HTTP clients and the cougar stack so tests can create… | ||
| Scaling Selenium to infinity using AWS Lambda | Wes Couch, Kurt Waechter | 40m |
UI tests move from hours to minutes by running Selenium with a packaged Chrome and Xvfb inside AWS Lambda, pulling large binaries from S3 into /tmp and reusing… | ||
| AI for element selection | Jason Arbon | 34m |
Demonstrates an appium plugin that uses a TensorFlow MobileNet-based classifier to find UI elements by semantics (cart, search, save), proving cross-platform… | ||
| How AI is transforming software testing | Raj Subramanian | 41m |
Argues that AI reduces brittle test maintenance by building dynamic location strategy detectors that extract many DOM attributes, score them and fall back when… | ||
| Run the load down your mobile app | Christina Thalayasingam | 33m |
Shows how to record mobile API traffic with JMeter recording via mobile proxy (install short‑lived CRT cert, proxy mobile Wi‑Fi) and why JMeter struggles with… | ||
| UI automation – it’s not free | Aditi Mulay | 40m |
Covers why Selenium WebDriver-driven UI automation still carries large hidden costs: one real project grows to 1,000+ UI tests running 22 hours/day across 100… | ||
| Selenium: state of the union | Simon Mavi Stewart, Jim Evans | 49m |
Project announces W3C WebDriver recommendation with major desktop browsers shipping compatible drivers, Edge bundled into Windows 10 and Safari 12 defaulting… | ||
| Automator activate: unleashing your inner superhero | Marlena Compton | 26m |
Three case studies show how test professionals translate expertise into civic action: a Make‑A‑Wish event mobilizes 20,000 people for Batkid, Claudette Colvin… | ||
| How test engineers with collaborative & growth mindset are winning | Meredith Bayne | 34m |
Argues that adopting a growth and collaborative mindset cuts regression from two weeks to quick CI/CD smoke cycles and prevents test suites from ossifying… | ||
| Sleeping is not your best friend in automation | Michelle Macdonald | 32m |
Asserts that fixed sleeps cause flakiness and slow tests and advocates replacing them with Selenium WebDriver waits: standard expected conditions, fluent… | ||
| Context: Missing ingredient in multilingual software translation | Mirjana Andovska | 27m |
Claim: showing text keys in the running app plus matched screenshots with the normal content exposes reused keys, concatenated fragments, hard coded strings… | ||
| Overcoming imposter syndrome | Elysia Lock | 39m |
Clear, specific account of overcoming imposter syndrome that claims promotions often worsen self-doubt and that sustained practices work: journaling… | ||
| Using Appium for Unity games and apps | Ru Cindrea | 39m |
Companies use Appium to drive installs and device gestures while OpenCV feature detection and matching locates UI elements by image, which finds layout bugs… | ||
| Automated accessibility testing | Dylan Barrell | 33m |
Automated audit library axe-core and its devtools axe Chrome extension inject into pages and iframes, run in any browser (including shadow DOM and cross-domain… | ||
| Spot the difference: automating visual regression testing | Viv Richards | 39m |
Claims that pixel comparisons add practical value and ships a custom C# visual-test framework that piggybacks on Selenium to take stitched and element-level… | ||
| Day 2 Lightning Talks | Sneha Bishop | 41m |
Team notices manual testers rerunning already-automated regressions and builds a simple process: a color‑coded mind maps inventory that marks which scenarios… | ||
| Day 1 Lightning Talks | Kim Creighton | 32m |
Declares lack of inclusion as a risk management issue that can lead to lawsuits and pushes a practical movement called #causeascene that trains white people… | ||
| Sub-second acceptance tests | Aslak Hellesøy | 50m |
Asserts that full-stack functional acceptance tests run in milliseconds by swapping real components for fast in-process substitutes, using a domain-specific… | ||
| Selenium Grid Docker Containers, Selene and pytest | Derrick Kearney | 31m |
A reproducible Selenium test stack runs from three shell targets: make test env up, make test, make test env down. It uses Selenium Grid Docker images for… | ||
| 3 ways not to use Selenium | Jain Waldrip | 36m |
Three concrete refactors replace bulky Selenium setup with backend calls: direct DB writes, REST API posts, or HTML form injection captured from Chrome and… | ||
| Knowing your automation | Hugh McCamphill | 27m |
Describes building and using UI automation around Selenium/WebDriver, starting from keyword-driven spreadsheets to custom wrappers and a 2013 in-house… | ||
| The well-architected automation framework | Adam Goucher | 38m |
Argues that flaky tests are solved but where tests run causes the real risk, citing Target’s ~40 million card breach and GDPR fines starting at €20,000 up to… | ||
| Designing the new Selenium IDE | Tomer Steinfeld | 31m |
Selenium IDE is rebuilt as a web extension with over 3 million downloads (Mozilla only), ~150,000 weekly users and ~1,000 daily installs, and ~20,000 legacy… | ||
| Automating repetitive communication tasks with a bot | Pooja Shah | 38m |
A bot named Alice enforces custom GitHub rules (per-file approval), auto-reverts merges with no review, and posts human-readable trace logs into Slack so… | ||
| Selenium Commiters Panel | 43m | |
Panelists explain that Selenium is downloaded 110+ million times and note 300,000 legacy bindings still get pulled, spotlighting huge existing users. Concrete… | ||
| Highlights | 01m | |
Two-day program that centers on practical Selenium work rather than theory, with sessions showing how to simulate real mobile devices using browser automation… | ||
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