State of the Union
summary
Selenium 4 is shipping through alphas (currently alpha3) with concrete changes: relative locators land as a JavaScript atom that sends about 44 kilobytes per find, and the project is adding W3C script pinning to reduce that overhead. The legacy grid/server codebases are being merged, distributed tracing and CDP integrations are in progress, and IDE is moving to Electron (Applitools). Roadmap is alphas → short betas → 4.0 before Chinese New Year; language bindings, docs and fit‑and‑finish need contributors now.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:35Deoxyribonucleic acid
- 2:47Crick and Watson
- 3:28Rosalind Franklin
- 7:42Punctuated evolution
- 12:31We can learn from each other
- 15:20Give credit
- 17:40The state of discourse
- 18:49Denial of science
- 20:27Reliance on gut feeling
- 22:29Relative locators
- 26:49Build on your strengths
- 27:48No-one sets out to do a bad job
- 30:11This isn't a zero-sum game
- 33:00The alphas
- 36:31Fit and finish?
- 37:20A new technical stack?
- 37:39Documentation?
- 38:01Broader Cloud support?
- 38:27Rough edges are the gateway to contribution
- 40:34Things WebDriver is older than
- 44:07I don't know
- 45:37One great worry
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