Selenium is dead, long live Selenium!

The past and future of client side testing!

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1. Selenium is dead, long live Selenium!! The past and future of client side testing sso@saucelabs - @santiycr - Sauce Labs
2. Who’s that guy Santiago Suarez Ordoñez - Selenium Contributor since 2007 - Backend Developer at Sauce Labs - Talks, conferences, groups - Python first, JS second - Growing a moustache for men’s health
3. What about Sauce Labs? Browsers in the cloud Test mobile and web apps in parallel +230 OS/Browser platforms Videos, screenshots, logs, badges, FLOSS
4. Evolution of (JS) testing And where it’s going
5. In the beginning... Client side testing wasn’t a thing
6. Agile and JS picked up
7. The first Selenium 100% Javascript Deployed with the website Firing JS events
8. 4 years later... Language bindings Run remotely 50% Java Code Proxy Injection Hacks Terrible API
9. Great news!!
10. Selenium 2 (webdriver) Well designed API W3C Spec Shrinking codebase
11. Bad news
12. Still, testing is hard Test Experts Budgets Time Steep learning curve Edgy scenarios Slow tests Flakey results
13. Unit tests are cheap Focused, simple, fast
14. Hm... need a browser Selenium!!
15. Selenium as a unit test vehicle
16. Run early, run often Continuous Integration Pre-commit On save!
17. Mock all the things! Reliability > Coverage
18. Keep them green Flakey tests == No tests
19. Make writing tests easy If it takes > 30’, I’m not gonna do it
20. Parallelize across browsers Talk about seconds, not minutes
21. Tools to look at Mocha Grunt Karma Yeti Intern Sauce’s JS Unit Testing API
22. Master the art of testing and testing will be your weapon sso@saucelabs - @santiycr - Sauce Labs