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A talk about Selenium IDE
Tomer Steinfeld @corevous
Frontend developer @ApplitoolsEyes

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You're in for a treat
HAHahaHahahA get it????

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How I got started with
Selenium

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didvote = 1

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Dave Haeffner
@tourdedave
Tomer Steinfeld
@corevous
Maintainers
Special thanks to @manoj9788 Jongkuen Hong

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After a decade we've finally
figured out what's wrong with
Selenium IDE
And it's not what you think

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https://nachonachoman.svbtle.com/interesting-hack-office-2016-in-night-mode

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DARK MODE

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A bit of stats before we begin
• Over 3,000,000 downloads
• More than 150,000 weekly users
• 1,000 daily installations

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Lots of people use the IDE

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Started in a Spring day of 2005
It was probably Spring somewhere

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Selenium IDE enables all
testers

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The death of Selenium IDE (again...)

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Someone picks up
Selenium IDE
Selenium IDE
becomes good
Selenium IDE
slowly deteriorates

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Prime opportunity to rewrite
the IDE
Death really gives it to ya

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Thanks @SideeX_org

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demo

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Reinventing the IDE

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Locator Fallback

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Plugins

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Axing user-extensions.js

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Commands

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Locators

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Control Flow
def method_missing(*args)
args.join(" ")
end
if foo
do_something
elsif
do_something_else
else
shouldnt_be_here
end
while i_am_talking
audience.stay_tuned
end
5.times do
how_many_times_do_i_do_this
end
def stack_overflow
stack_overflow
end

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Few samples
while loop

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Few samples
if statement

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CI Runner

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selenium-side-runner
• Parallel execution
• Base url for multiple deployments
• Grid execution
• Configurable through capabilities
• e2e test framework for free

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Interpreted using Node
npm install -g selenium-side-runner

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really cool demo

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Playback on WebDriver
coming soon™

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Roadmap
• WebDriver compatibility
• Export to languages (Java, C#, JavaScript, etc...)
• Data driven testing
• Make it work for wonky websites 💯

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Thanks to all the past contributors
Shinya Kasatani
Adam Goucher
Samit Badle