The Future of Web
App Testing
and How to Stop It
@jhuggins
Jason Huggins
hugs@saucelabs.com
seleniumhq.org | saucelabs.com
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But First...
A Brief History
Of Web Testing

Why Selenium?

Browser Wars II
6, 7 & 8 2, 3 3, 4 beta
1.0 9.6

Test Automation
Source: - F.O.X.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kv/499219/

Large tests

Dynamic HTML - Ajax

End-to-end Workflows

Any browser -
Any platform

Selenium Cumulative Downloads

Firms with: 100+ downloads
January – October 2008

Why not
Selenium ?

Small tests

Anything outside the
JavaScript sandbox
Source: http://lug.mtu.edu/wiki/images/2/27/SANDBOX.jpg

Flash, Java Applets,
Silverlight, PDF
Source: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/big-images/doi-box-hi-res.jpg

Example?

ThoughtWorks Time &
Expense
Source: - Neal Ford: http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2006_nfjs_canonical/Neal_Ford-Testing_with_Selenium-slides.pdf

Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE for Firefox

Selenium
Remote Control

Selenium Remote Control
Source: - http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/824/5100491.JPG

Selenium Remote Control

Selenium Grid

Selenium Grid
Which is faster? (1 server, sequential tasks)
4
3
Servers
2
1
Time
Source: - http://factoryjoe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/pods.jpg

Which is faster? (4 servers, parallel tasks)
4
3
Servers
2
1
Time
25

p13y.com
Source: - http://www.flickr.com/photos/onetreehillstudios/2958752337/

And Now...

The Future
(which only you can prevent)

Source: http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/big-images/doi-box-hi-res.jpg

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Example!

Thank You
@jhuggins
hugs@saucelabs.com