Introduction to Selenium 2
The Selenium family of tools continue to set the standard for robust, automated testing of modern web applications. Selenium 2 represents the culmination of nearly two years of intense effort. This effort focused on the merging and continued evolution of WebDriver into Selenium. The result was a greatly improved test developer experience, greater platform coverage and improved test performance.
This focus of this session will be to introduce web developers and testers to the powerful WebDriver API that comes with the release of Selenium 2. In addition, we'll look at the differences found in WebDriver's API and architecture as compared to the classic Selenium 1.x, and demonstrate how we can gracefully migrate our test suites forward. In addition, we'll consider Selenium 2's:
- Powerful support for the Page Object pattern, a mechanism for the separation of the orthogonal concerns of logical application functionality and DOM structure, to construct effective tests which read more like executable specifications than code.
- New Advanced User Interaction framework
- Support for testing web applications within mobile browsers
- Support for grid-enabled WebDriver-based tests
About Matt Stine
My passion is taking a metaphysical approach to software engineering: what is the nature of the collaborative game that we continuously play, and are there better, more contextually-aware ways to play that game?
By day I lead a team tasked with taking a first-principles-centric approach to intentionally enabling programming language usage at the largest bank in the United States.
By night I write and teach my way through a masterclass in software engineering and architecture targeting early-career software engineers working in large-scale enterprise technology organizations.
What is the primary goal?
To win the game. More seriously: to get 1% better every day at providing business value through software.
Who am I?
I'm a 22-year veteran of the enterprise software industry. I've played almost every role I can imagine:
- Software Engineer
- Software Architect
- Technical Lead
- Engineering Manager
- Consultant
- Product Manager
- Field CTO
- Developer Advocate
- Conference Speaker
- Author
- Technical Trainer
- Technical Marketer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Desktop Support Specialist
I've worked at Fortune 500 companies, a tenacious teal cloud startup, and a not-for-profit children's hospital. I've written a book, and I've hosted a podcast. I've learned a lot along the way, including many things I wish I'd known when I first got started. And so now I want to pass those learnings on to you, especially if you've only just begun your career.
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