As codeless automation tools rise (again) in popularity, will record and playback disappoint us again? We'll take a deeper look into what is vs. isn’t possible from codeless solutions. We’ll then discuss some approaches to fill the gaps where codeless solutions fall short.

As codeless automation tools rise in popularity, we'll take a deeper look to see what lies beneath. While many believe that codeless solutions will continue to gain in popularity due to the simplicity of recording tests which empower non-developers with the ability to automate. You'll be surprised how far from the truth this really is.

In this talk, we will compare the pros and cons of both code and codeless options, which will help you make a more clear and sound decision regarding your automation stack.

In this talk we will delve into one the biggest challenges that Test Automation developers face, finding elements i.e. a robust test means finding the same element with high fidelity while the Application Under Test keeps changing.

We will categorise the methods, and show where developer fail, where machines (Record/Playback) fail, and suggest a new way for locating elements, and analyze the skill-set required to overcome those difficulties.

Every language and framework which lives as long as Selenium has its fuckups.. and we're here to embrance them and joke about them.

E.g. JS Wat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqhZZNUyVFM

Almost every manual QA started with Selenium IDE or at least tried it at some point.. retention rate is close to 0.

In this talk we will depict the challenges that Test Automation Developers face. We'll categorise the challenges, name them, and see the skillset required to overcome the difficulties.

We'll compare the different Record/Playback tools and see where they excel, and where we must resort to traditional solutions (e.g. generic programming languages, and the Page Object design).

This talk will discuss topics such as Reuse of code, Component Isolation, Separation of Concerns, APIs, where test fragility stem from and how to overcome it, etc..

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/orenrubin/page-objects-presentation-selenium-conference-2014-38767492

In this talk I will walk the audience step by step at building tests using the Page Object Design Pattern, making several attempts until we reach the current recommendation. We'll see the dos, don'ts, and common pitfalls.

In this presentation I'll also cover the Page-Factory Design Pattern, and best practices for dealing with asynchronously and how to remove the deadly "random sleeps".