SeleniumConf London 2019
2019-10-07..2019-10-08
London, United Kingdom
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Pipe dream or reality? Mobile web testing in your CI/CD pipeline | Laszlo Simity | 10m |
Selenium scripts run on mobile with small Appium changes, and Chrome DevTools’ device emulation and window resize command are only a first approximation… | ||
| Devs should love your tests | Carlos Kidman | 33m |
Claims that got results: a cross‑team coverage heatmap for the “leaving a review” flow reveals an untested star‑only path and leads to replacing many UI checks… | ||
| Shifting left your UI tests | Arjan Blok | 31m |
Mendix’s Web IDE is a TypeScript React SPA that originally relied on WebDriverIO Selenium tests — a few hundred UI tests take about half an hour and cause… | ||
| UX !=UI: Testing UI and UX | Manoj Kumar | 32m |
Argues that usability and accessibility must be tested early and continuously, not tacked on; cites Dig’s user exodus and eBay’s gradual color‑fading algorithm… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Jesus Diaz | 30m |
A rapid sequence of concrete claims and tools: a demo of 200 fully headed browsers on a 32‑core machine at ~50% CPU for UI load testing, an AI-powered smart… | ||
| 4-1-4: four ways to communicate one thing to four different people! | Petra Bouskova | 42m |
Presents a concrete method: classify teammates as blue/red/green/yellow (Jung/Insights Discovery), adjust meetings and escalations accordingly, and use quick… | ||
| Lessons from testing browsers using WebDriver | Sam Sneddon | 30m |
Web-platform-tests runs the full suite across major browsers about a dozen times daily producing 60 million tests per day and forcing work on install… | ||
| Committers Panel | 42m | |
Panel outlines concrete progress and next steps: selenium 4 won't fix all browser quirks but the W3C WebDriver spec is largely implemented, CI is turning green… | ||
| Screwing up. The automated way! | Madalina Bejinariu | 35m |
Built an end-to-end framework from scratch using AutoIt → C#, Selenium WebDriver, NUnit that ran nightly across Chrome/Firefox/IE and accidentally inserts 240… | ||
| Let's take baby steps to security testing | Christina Thalayasingam | 36m |
Shows how to run OWASP ZAP alongside existing Selenium suites and gate results in Jenkins so obvious vulnerabilities surface during CI rather than at release… | ||
| Part 3: practice what you preach when deploying Selenium 4.x | Adam Goucher | 39m |
Deploys a Selenium Grid on AWS using Terraform + AWS with Packer-built images, Puppet provisioning, a Bastion host inside a public VPC and hub/nodes in a… | ||
| Caring for new developers | Lanette Creamer | 32m |
Class data show a stark dropout gap: 15 men vs 4 women certificates after nine months, and hiring churn costs about £12,000 per vacancy. Advice focuses on… | ||
| Using ML to find value in your automated tests | Dmitriy Gumeniuk | 41m |
Open-source dashboard ReportPortal.io collects test results in real time, tags failures, and uses TF‑IDF + k‑NN lazy learning over vectorized stack traces… | ||
| The Pied Piper of Selenium | Michelle Macdonald | 36m |
Selenium click behaves cautiously: it scrolls the element into view, checks it’s enabled and not obscured, and clicks the centre point; Selenium click checks… | ||
| Redefining test automation | Richard Bradshaw | 51m |
Argues that automation should serve testing not replace it, trading unfocused UI scripts for targeted checks and tooling across layers; moves from… | ||
| Selenium IDE staying positive | Tomer Steinfeld | 29m |
Selenium IDE is being rebuilt from a Chrome extension that uses Selenium Core into a native Electron app that switches to WebDriver for playback and injects… | ||
| Next level of Front end testing with Devtools and WebDriver | Fathima Harris, Srinivasan Sekar | 29m |
Shows how existing Selenium WebDriver suites gain Chrome DevTools power by opening Chromedriver with remote debugging, fetching the WebSocket debugger URL and… | ||
| Build an automation framework... with a developer mindset | Aditi Mulay | 35m |
Framework design shows concrete changes: Selenium plus custom wrappers and Selenium Grid run hundreds of tests while generating video recording of every test… | ||
| An engineer's code of ethics | Agisilaos Tsaraboulidis | 36m |
Tech ethics gets concrete: research surfaces 30 million search results and 90+ documented incidents in a year, including Cambridge Analytica using Facebook… | ||
| Getting started with internal open source | Raluca Morariu | 39m |
Company moves from monolith to microservices and adopts an internal open source model where home squad/project squad ownership replaces silos; process uses… | ||
| Selenium and Conservancy | Deb Nicholson | 34m |
Conservancy acts as the fiscal umbrella for Selenium and more than over 40 projects, taking on accounting, domain and trademark registration, vendor contract… | ||
| Saying goodbye to full stack tests with task analysis | Mark Winteringham | 40m |
Full-stack Selenium login test splits into four targeted checks: a visual screenshot check with Applitools against the Restful Booker Platform, an API check… | ||
| Open source multiplatform visual based testing | Noemi Ferrera | 35m |
Airtest Project is an open source, Python-backed test tool (launched at GDC 2018 with Google) that combines a record-and-playback IDE with scriptable tests and… | ||
| Treat test code as application code by linting | Kwo Ding | 28m |
Argues that treating test code like production code and linting it improves maintainability and reduces flakiness, and demonstrates Java/JavaScript stats (Java… | ||
| Adding accessibility into Unit Tests | Elizabeth Simister, Heidi Jungel | 34m |
Automated checks catch about 25% of accessibility issues so the team integrates Deque’s Axe into Jest/React unit tests, mapping WCAG/Section 508 rules… | ||
| State of the Union | Simon Mavi Stewart | 49m |
Selenium 4 is shipping through alphas (currently alpha3) with concrete changes: relative locators land as a JavaScript atom that sends about 44 kilobytes per… | ||
| SeleniumConf London 2019 Webinar | Marcus R Merrell, Aditi Mulay, Wim Selles, Raluca Morariu, Madalina Bejinariu, Petra Bouskova | 58m |
Panelists explain concrete fixes and roadmaps: demos of Selenium 4 Grid and browser automation compatibility, a working automation framework that grew over… | ||
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