SeleniumConf India 2020
2020-09-10..2020-09-12
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as the organisers put it
Selenium Conference 2020 brings together Selenium developers and enthusiasts from around the world to share ideas, socialize, and work together on advancing the present and future of Selenium. | 10 - 12 Sep 2020 | Online
who it's for
Selenium developers, test automation engineers, mobile automation engineers, qa engineers, automation tool maintainers, test architects, devops engineers
topics
W3C WebDriver standard; Selenium 4 features; Selenium Grid refactor; Docker and Kubernetes support; Node.js CLI runner for IDE; Appium cross-platform automation; exploratory testing with approval tests; Checking as a Service; relative locators for elements; network stubbing via CDP; observability with structured logs and tracing; proxy plus JavaScript injection (Sahi)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Selenium: State of the Union | Simon Mavi Stewart, Manoj Kumar | 52m |
Timeline shows the W3C WebDriver standard becoming a recommendation and browsers (Edge preview, Safari tech preview, Gecko, Chrome work) adopting it, and the… | ||
| 6 Years of Appium | Dan Cuellar | 46m |
A lightweight Python shell-eval hack that fed commands through text files turns into a stable WebDriver-based broker that automates iOS, Android, Windows and… | ||
| Intersection of Automation and Exploratory Testing | Maaret Pyhäjärvi | 01h 01m |
Claim: exploratory testing and automation are complementary and learning-focused, not opposed. Uses the Gilded Rose refactoring kata run under coverage with… | ||
| Selenium: State of the Union | Simon Mavi Stewart | 50m |
Selenium 3 ships a beta at the conference and removes the old JavaScript Selenium Core is gone, keeping WebDriver as a drop-in replacement so existing… | ||
| Checking as a Service | Bret Pettichord | 59m |
Reframes automation from “tests” to Checking as a Service so teams deliver a fast, reliable thumbs up/thumbs down signal rather than noisy coverage counts… | ||
| 2020 Vision:: Leadership | Anne-Marie Charrett | 49m |
Claims that leadership must reframe testing for constant change, citing 12.6 million hectares burned and one billion animals lost as reasons systems face… | ||
| Selenium: State of the Union | Simon Mavi Stewart | 46m |
Selenium 4 ships concrete features: relative locators for human-style element lookup, event listeners for console and DOM events, and network stubbing (demo… | ||
| A Tale of Two Automation Tools | Narayan Raman | 51m |
Sahi starts in 2005 as a browser proxy that injects JavaScript and reaches SourceForge rank 26; it uses proxy + JS injection to access the DOM, avoids brittle… | ||
| I'm Not Special | Jim Evans | 45m |
Claims that sustained impact comes from small practical actions rather than genius, with concrete examples: built .NET WebDriver bindings (C#, ported WebDriver… | ||
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