Keynote - The Good Software Project: A Personal History
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History of hands-on fixes and tooling: work includes created .NET WebDriver bindings, tracking and patching an IE driver memory leak, and rewrote IE driver to avoid UAC/elevation issues so automation runs on modern Windows. Project-level results include vendor-supplied drivers for Chrome/Edge/Safari, a W3C-aligned Gecko driver, and large-scale CI at Salesforce with ~100,000 Selenium tests, ~880,000 WebDriver runs and 1,000+ commits/day—showing code wins, not promises.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:33Early career at Microsoft
- 12:27Navigating test automation
- 22:06Involvement in Selenium
- 29:48Industry-wide collaboration
- 39:21Closing thoughts
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