Keynote - Selenium: State of the Union
summary
WebDriver reaches W3C Candidate Recommendation (April 1) and needs two independent implementations plus web-platform-test contributions on github.com/w3c to progress; current implementations are geckodriver (Firefox nightly + Gecko) and the IEDriver and the spec enforces required capabilities so requests that can’t be met fail. Selenium moves to the W3C protocol in Selenium 4 while keeping JSON wire compatibility; upgrade one piece at a time. Notes on governance: the Software Freedom Conservancy manages contributor agreements and IP. Common pitfalls: PageFactory, implicit waits, and headless-only testing reduce confidence.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:48State of the Union
- 1:43W3C spec process
- 4:15Candidate Recommendation
- 7:26Selenium 4 Protocols
- 10:40Language Bindings WebDriver
- 13:54Software Freedom Conservancy
- 16:27Learning over time
- 17:42WebDriver
- 21:59Desired Capabilities
- 24:26Lesson Learned
- 27:54Logging
- 29:33Expected Conditions
- 31:09Be Gentle with Yourself
- 33:33Headless Browsers
- 36:41Implicit Weights
- 38:52Job Security
- 42:05Professional Tester
- 46:05Thank you
