From Rigidity to Resiliency: An Evolutionary Tale of Selenium-Based Frameworks by Tariq #SeConf 2022
Channel: ConfEngine
Date: 2022-08-09

Prior to Selenium, engineering teams around the globe were struggling to build and maintain their own web testing solutions. Most frameworks at that time neither supported testing the front-end behavior of web applications, nor executing tests across different browsers and operating systems.  This forced teams to fill that gap with homegrown solutions and they were doing so in silos, without the support and backing of the open-source community or browser development companies. As we know, Selenium changed all of that and WebDriver has been a saving grace for development teams. However, the rise of Selenium unveiled a hidden set of web UI test automation challenges, many of which are still prevalent today.

Join Tariq King as he takes you on a journey to address those challenges through an evolutionary tale of test automation framework development. Based on a true story, the tale starts with replacing a rigid homegrown solution with a more flexible internal Selenium-Based Domain Specific Language (DSL), and then extending that into an external DSL with powerful test management and software process integrations. The next step in the evolution incorporates AI-based element selection and self-healing features into Selenium. Curious about where the story goes or how it ends? Tariq will share his thoughts on the future of web UI test automation with Selenium.

More details: https://confengine.com/conferences/selenium-conf-2022/proposal/16878

Conference Link: https://2022.seleniumconf.in