Selenium WebDriver v4 was released in Oct 2021. This version of Selenium WebDriver brings new features and capabilities for automation. At the same time, there are some features that are now deprecated and changed.

If you answer yes to any of the following questions, this workshop is for you!

• Are you using Selenium 3 and want to know how or why to update to Selenium 4?
• Have you written Selenium tests before, but want to know about the advanced features?
• Are you are struggling with flaky tests and want to learn strategies for fixing them?

This practical, hands-on, course is designed to help automation engineers take their Selenium expertise to the next level. All attendees will leave with working Selenium WebDriver code on their machines and many techniques to successfully use the Selenium WebDriver API in their own context.

Q & A with the Selenium Committer's Panel moderated by Pooja Shah

As anyone who has maintained a large Selenium test suite knows, the largest costs are not in the running or initial creation of the test suite but in the maintenance time. There are straightforward ways to leverage your framework to minimize flakiness and make it easier to update test code only when needed. We’ll walk through testing a sample real-world application focusing on how each of the components needs to work together.

Testing strategies and the role of DOM to Database Testing in a world of micro services and client side MVCs.

The trends in software development are making UI testing increasingly difficult. Sites are leveraging more dynamic interactions and moving toward Single Page Applications. Gone are the days when the term “and the page finishes loading” makes any sense. This shift is dramatically increasing the number of flaky tests as well as the costs of such testing relative to the benefits, leaving many organizations wondering if they are worth doing at all. 

The approach to testing that is “good enough” for any given organization is going to vary by context. In this talk, I’ll cover some different testing options and the advantages and disadvantages to each. We’ll discuss the dangers of mocking and stubbing, the problems with relying on testing journeys, and dealing with bloated test suites that are difficult to maintain.

Another trend in software development is away from monolithic architectures and toward micro services and service oriented architectures. This approach provides opportunities for decreasing the costs and overhead of UI testing while still maintaining all of the benefits of DOM to Database verification.