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Flakiness in your tests isn't down to test frameworkSeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 20252025-03-26
Claim: test flakiness comes from asynchronous systems and test design, not the framework. Examples: frameworks from Selenium, Puppeteer, Cypress, Playwright…
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From install to running tests in 2 mins - Mobile testing isn't scaryAppium Conf 20242024-09-13
Claim: get from install to a running mobile test in about two minutes. Uses NightwatchJS plus an open-source mobile-helper that auto-downloads SDKs, creates or…
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Testing Frameworks, Mobile Frameworks, and Browsers Love Developers and TestersTestJS Summit 20232023-12-07
Focusing on being where your users are isn't as difficult as you think. A lot of groups out there will tell you that their tool is the best and that even…
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Building out a meaningful test suite that's not all E2ETestJS Summit 20232023-12-07
This workshop covered topics such as optimizing the CI/CD pipeline, scaling and trust in CI/CD, TDD and trust in testing, setting up Nightwatch for mobile…
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5 Habits to Treat Your Test Code Like ProductionTestJS Summit 20222022-11-04
This talk focuses on the five habits to treat test code like production code. It emphasizes the importance of modular testing and breaking down UI tests into…
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How to Test Components – It Doesn’t Need to All Be E2E TestsTestFlix 20222022-10-08
Argues that full E2E is not required for every UI check and that component tests mounted in a real browser run faster and produce far less flake than sprawling…
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Working in the Shadow (DOM) - How to test Web ComponentsSelenium Conf 20222022-07-29
Explains that Web Components reduce page bloat but break traditional locators and that ad hoc fixes in Playwright, WebdriverIO and SeleniumBase use special…
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Selenium 4 – What's New and How you Can Use it!TestJS Summit 20212021-11-18
Selenium 4 ships after five years and 400+ commits and moves WebDriver to the W3C standard so commands behave uniformly across Chrome Firefox Safari and Edge…
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Beyond WebDriver!Breakpoint 20202020-07-20
WebDriver moves from request/response to a persistent, event-driven protocol called WebDriver BiDi that opens a WebSocket JSON‑RPC‑ish channel so tests can…
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Adding Gestures to WebDriver, What a DragSelenium Conference 20132013-06-10
Mozilla implements gesture support for WebDriver by adding a multi-action chain that batches per-finger action chains (press, move, moveByOffset, wait…
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From FirefoxDriver to Marionette, Mozilla pulls the stringsSelenium Conference 20132013-06-10
Marionette is a new automation server integrated into Gecko (launch with -marionette) that can switch between setContext Chrome/content so tests manipulate…
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