Simon Mavi Stewart
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- Selenium Conference2 editions2011–2013
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on a stage with
- Manoj Kumar2×
- David Bloomanonce
- Ivan Žužakonce
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who talks about the same things
- Manoj Kumar19 talks
- Marcus R Merrell12 talks
- Diego Molina17 talks
- Jim Evans8 talks
- Christian Bromann18 talks
- Puja Jagani12 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Using AI, statistics, and set theory to know what to test | HUSTEF 2025 | 2025-10-14 |
Claims target determination from the build graph plus heuristics and ML cut test runs dramatically: tools named include Bazel, NX, TurboRepo, Gradle, Maven… | ||
| CI and the Great Flakiness Adventure | TestMu Conference 2025 | 2025-08-19 |
Defines intrarun vs interrun flakiness and a four-step lifecycle: detect assign resolve verify. Recommends automated cron jobs that pull historical results… | ||
| Interview – Simon Stewart | SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2025 | 2025-03-26 |
Conference gathers committers and core team present alongside users who built companies on Selenium, creating direct feedback about what breaks and what scales… | ||
| CI With Bazel (Why Selenium is Using It & You Should Too) | Selenium Conf 2022 | 2022-07-29 |
Selenium moves a polyglot codebase into a single monorepo and replaces custom and Facebook tooling with Bazel to get reproducible, hash-based builds… | ||
| Towards Joyful Development | Appium Conference 2021 | 2021-09-17 |
Argues that tightening feedback loops—more small, hermetic unit tests, fewer brittle end-to-end Appium/Selenium tests, and parallelized builds—returns frequent… | ||
| Selenium: State of the Union | SeleniumConf India 2020 | 2020-09-10 |
Timeline shows the W3C WebDriver standard becoming a recommendation and browsers (Edge preview, Safari tech preview, Gecko, Chrome work) adopting it, and the… | ||
| Selenium: State of the Union | SeleniumConf India 2020 | 2020-09-10 |
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… | ||
| Selenium: State of the Union | SeleniumConf India 2020 | 2020-09-10 |
Selenium 4 ships concrete features: relative locators for human-style element lookup, event listeners for console and DOM events, and network stubbing (demo… | ||
| Selenium 4 | Selenium Camp 2020 | 2020-02-21 |
Selenium 4 alphas exist now and aim for a mostly drop‑in upgrade: the legacy JSON Wire Protocol is removed in favor of the W3C WebDriver, the revived IDE is… | ||
| State of the Union | SeleniumConf London 2019 | 2019-10-07 |
Selenium 4 is shipping through alphas (currently alpha3) with concrete changes: relative locators land as a JavaScript atom that sends about 44 kilobytes per… | ||
| Selenium: state of the union | SeleniumConf Chicago 2018 | 2018-10-18 |
Project announces W3C WebDriver recommendation with major desktop browsers shipping compatible drivers, Edge bundled into Windows 10 and Safari 12 defaulting… | ||
| Selenium: State of the Union | Selenium Conference India 2018 | 2018-06-28 |
Project has been active ~12–13 years with only four long-term committers since 2014 and about 40+ people at the workshop, and it now claims W3C WebDriver… | ||
| Selenium State of the Union, To Infinity and Beyond | SeleniumConf Berlin 2017 | 2017-10-09 |
WebDriver is now a W3C specification stuck at proposed recommendation, with two working implementations—geckodriver and IEDriver—and an extensive stat test… | ||
| Keynote - Selenium: State of the Union | SeleniumConf Austin 2017 | 2017-04-04 |
WebDriver reaches W3C Candidate Recommendation (April 1) and needs two independent implementations plus web-platform-test contributions on github.com/w3c to… | ||
| How Open Source Powers Facebook on Android | OSCON 2014 | 2014-07-20 |
Facebook open sources the actual build and test tooling behind Android: Buck cuts clean builds from 33s (Gradle example) to 6s and incremental installs from… | ||
| Building Mobile Apps with Open Source Tools | Mobile @ Scale 2013 | 2013-10-26 |
Facebook describes the actual tooling and numbers: code lands via git with code review in Fabricator, CI on Buildbot, ~15 APK variants, ~1M beta and ~20k daily… | ||
| Introduction and Notices | Selenium Conference 2013 | 2013-06-10 |
Opening logistics and ground rules for the two-day event: Wi‑Fi SSID conference renaissance with password CConf2013, official hashtag #conf, sponsors include… | ||
| Selenium State of the Union | Selenium Conference 2013 | 2013-06-10 |
Selenium reports concrete milestones: Python bindings pass one million downloads and Ruby exceeds ~5.5 million; ChromeDriver 2 runs ~700–800 tests with few… | ||
| Panel 7: Testing and tooling | Edge Conference 2013 | 2013-02-09 |
Panel covers concrete tools and workflows: automated CSS checks with Fighting Layout Bugs, CI running Dojo 2 tests via Travis + Sauce Labs, Telemetry for… | ||
| How pet projects can enhance your career | Rubyfuza 2013 | 2013-02-01 |
Argues that short pet projects prove skills by shipping end-to-end work, not just tinkering, and recommends tools and habits that actually move projects… | ||
| Selenium State of the Union | SeleniumConf 2012 London | 2012-04-16 |
Summary of project status since SeleniumConf 2011: core moves to WebDriver and Grid as active development, with Selenium RC in maintenance mode; the project… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Selenium Conference 2011 | 2011-04-04 |
Selenium 1 is now maintenance-only while Selenium 2 / WebDriver is the active codebase; ThoughtWorks donates the Krypton framework to solve native events on OS… | ||
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