Year End Review 2022
Looking back at our achievements from 2022
Category: general
BELLATRIX Test Automation Framework for C# and JAVA
Customize and extend BELLATRIX, a cross-platform .NET 6 and JAVA test automation framework to perfectly fit your needs. Start on top of hundreds of best practices features and integrations.
Dev and Beta Channel Browsers via Docker Selenium
Now you can test on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge on the Dev and Beta channels using Docker Selenium
Scaling a Kubernetes Selenium Grid with KEDA
Scaling Selenium Grid in a Kubernetes cluster with the help of KEDA
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Test Automation Summit Berlin
An event to improve contributions to and collaboration among open source WebDriver based projects
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Removing Legacy Protocol Support
Selenium 4.3 will only support W3C compliant WebDriver syntax
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Locate your locators - Python bindings changes upcoming
Updating your locators for changes in the Python bindings in Selenium 4
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IE Mode in Edge supported by IEDriver
Support for IE Mode in Edge with IEDriver
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Improving & refining our Docs translations
We are refining our docs content with help from the community!
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Stepping Down, Stepping Up
Simon is stepping down as lead of the Selenium project. What happens next?
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Selenium 4 Release Candidate
We’re very happy to announce the first release candidate of Selenium 4.
All Selenium downloads are now available on GitHub releases
We are happy to announce all Selenium are available on GitHub releases.
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Selenium downloads will move to GitHub releases
We are moving all Selenium binaries from Google Storage to GitHub releases.
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The Selenium website has a new look!
We’re very happy to announce the new look for the Selenium website!
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IRC channels are moving to Libera.chat
Moving to Libera.Chat
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Selenium 4 Beta 1 Released
We’re very happy to announce the release of the first beta of Selenium 4.
New Tricks in Selenium 4
Selenium Grid: a mechanism that allows you to distribute your tests across a fleet of machines.
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Results of the first ever selenium survey
Summary of the Selenium survey that was collected
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New Tricks in Selenium 4
Today, we’ll cover some details about the new tricks and capabilities that Selenium 4 offers.
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What’s Coming in Selenium 4: Why The Major Version Bump?
Let’s start talking about Selenium 4 and what’s coming. One thing I think I should clear up is “why the major version number bump?”
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What’s Coming in Selenium 4: How Can I Contribute?
As the lead of the Selenium project, I wanted to kick off a new blog series leading up to the release of Selenium 4.
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Browser Testing and Tools WG Meeting @ TPAC 2020
Browser Testing and Tools WG Meeting @ TPAC 2020
Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6 is out!
We are very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 4.0 Alpha 6
Selenium IDE Is Dead, Long Live Selenium IDE!
Selenium IDE is now the Legacy IDE, a new Selenium IDE is coming!
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Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE
The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work.
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Hacking with IntelliJ
Jetbrains have a programme for Open Source projects which allows them to receive IntelliJ IDEA licenses.
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Selenium 3.0: Out Now!
We are very pleased to announce the release of Selenium 3.0.
Selenium 3 is Coming
Selenium 3 is coming!
Announcing Selenium 3.0-beta1
At SeleniumConf in 2013, we announced that a new major version of Selenium would be released “by Christmas”.
IntelliJ
Every year, Jetbrains are kind enough to donate an OSS license for IntelliJ to the Selenium project.
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Android and iOS Support
TL;DR: We’re retiring Selenium’s own AndroidDriver and iPhoneDriver in favour of any of Selendroid, iosdriver and Appium.
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Mobile WebDriver
Although the WebDriver APIs started life as just a mechanism for automating web browsers, over the past few years it has been extended to also work on mobile devices.
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The Road to Selenium 3
Selenium 2 was released in July 2011…
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A Smattering of Selenium #157
Trying to find every excuse not to cut the grass… including apparently closing some browser tabs.
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A Smattering of Selenium #156
Brain fried from PyCon Canada 2013 and ‘some’ browser tab is misbehaving which means its time to start closing some of these.
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The World’s Best Selenium Meetup
Note from Adam: This is a guest post from Dave Haeffner who, along with David Burns hatched this idea at SeConf2013.
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A Smattering of Selenium #155
A ‘should be scripting, but brain stuck in neutral so closing some tabs’ edition of the Smattering.
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A Smattering of Selenium #154
Apparently today’s ‘wait for an email’ task is to whittle down the smattering queue some more.
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A Smattering of Selenium #153
A Sunday Smattering? Sure!
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A Smattering of Selenium #152
40-ish minutes until midnight eastern so that counts as two days in a row, right? Right?
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A Smattering of Selenium #151
Almost a month after the last one.
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A Smattering of Selenium #150
Yup, this smattering has very little to do with Selenium, but… 150!
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A Smattering of Selenium #149
Too. Many. Tabs.
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A Smattering of Selenium #148
Gotta start this up again…
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A Smattering of Selenium #147
My. Get. Productive. I know! I’ll push out a smattering.
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A Smattering of Selenium #146
Happy ‘productivity destructive week’ — otherwise known as March break.
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A Smattering of Selenium #145
Alice Finch builds massive LEGO Hogwarts from 400,000 bricks starts out at awesome and goes somewhere further down the scale when you get to the photo that shows scale.
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A Smattering of Selenium #144
Real Canadians watch curling instead of hockey.
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A Smattering of Selenium #143
If you had anything interesting last week I should have seen, you’ll have to resend it to me or @seleniumhq — things were a bit crashy.
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A Smattering of Selenium #142
Its a Wiggle your brain kind of morning…
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A Smattering of Selenium #141
Its -12 Celsius plus windchill out.
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A Smattering of Selenium #140
Buckets!
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A Smattering of Selenium #139
Posting from the past into the future. Or something…
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A Plan to Drop Firefox 3.x Support
The support policy of the selenium project for Firefox browsers is to support the current and previous stables releases, as well as the current and previous ESR releases. At the time of writing, that means the supported versions are “10” and “17” (ESR) and “17” and “18” (stable channel). In addition to this, we are […]
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A Smattering of Selenium #138
<insert snark here>
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A Smattering of Selenium #137
Whoops, missed a couple days… ah well.
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A Smattering of Selenium #136
Someone go back to my past self and punch him for thinking that starting to get in shape was a good idea.
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A Smattering of Selenium #135
Three in a row…
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A Smattering of Selenium #134
Hrm. Office is closed until Monday, but everyone is in.
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A Smattering of Selenium #133
Since today is the start of ‘find a new contract’ I guess I don’t have an excuse to miss these for the next week or so.
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A Smattering of Selenium #132
2.27.0 is now out which means you can close the browser tab that points to the old Firefox installers.
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A Smattering of Selenium #131
Not sure how widely broadcast this has been…
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A Smattering of Selenium #130
Can’t get enough Se bloggage?
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A Smattering of Selenium #129
A hardy welcome back to work to our American friends who spent Thursday being thankful for what they had, then getting into fist fights at stores for things they thought they didn’t need the next day.
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A Smattering of Selenium #128
…as I avoid writing code that deals with dynamically constructed tables.
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A Smattering of Selenium #127
Within an hour I had some more things to add to the last Smattering.
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A Smattering of Selenium #126
I’ve been threatening that I was going to do this for awhile…
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A Smattering of Selenium #125
Right…
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A Smattering of Selenium #124
Too. Many. Links. Not. Enough. Posts.
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A Smattering of Selenium #123
If you are not using something like Chef or Puppet to keep your grid nodes behaving then you are absolutely doing it wrong.
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A Smattering of Selenium #122
Let’s try the ‘all video’ edition this time.
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A Smattering of Selenium #121
Its the ‘all github’ edition today!
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A Smattering of Selenium #120
Here we grow again.
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A Smattering of Selenium #119
Its that time again, 4th Annual Automation Honors Voting is now open.
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A Smattering of Selenium #118
<Insert witty/snarky commentary on something here>
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A Smattering of Selenium #117
Evolutionary Project Structure talks about a particular project structure…
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A Smattering of Selenium #116
So do people celebrate the day after Labor day as the beginning of summer?
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A Smattering of Selenium #115
The big news in the twitter-verse yesterday was the announcement of Apple Sauce and Android Sauce from Sauce Labs.
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A Smattering of Selenium #114
Hurray for having fillings done on both sides of my face.
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A Smattering of Selenium #113
/me is not looking forward to when the jet lag whallops him
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A Smattering of Selenium #112
Eyes are gross.
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A Smattering of Selenium #111
When this gets published, I’ll be sitting around the Barcelona airport waiting for my connection home.
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A Smattering of Selenium #110
Dear body; what time zone are you in?
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A Smattering of Selenium #109
Going to be on an airplane for the better part of the next day, so will likely miss some links … unless I am tagged on twitter with it.
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A Smattering of Selenium #108
Apparently the links are slowing down for the summer?
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A Smattering of Selenium #107
Back on the train again. Wow, the highway is screwed today.
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A Smattering of Selenium #106
In case you are curious, the train just went past my old neighbourhood.
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A Smattering of Selenium #105
This was supposed to go out Friday, but the flu bug I picked up decided to move the schedule about somewhat.
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A Smattering of Selenium #104
I think everyone is on holidays right now…
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A Smattering of Selenium #103
Seems I had this all ready to go yesterday…
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A Smattering of Selenium #102
Apparently my body isn’t quite on left coast time…
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A Smattering of Selenium #101
Really? A drought for most of the week and now I’ve got a queue again in the span of 3 hours?
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A Smattering of Selenium #100
Century!
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A Smattering of Selenium #99
With the queue flushed we’ll go back to our regular random posting schedule.
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A Smattering of Selenium #98
Happy day off Canuckistan!
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A Smattering of Selenium #97
Yes. I know. I missed a day.
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A Smattering of Selenium #96
Blech. Supposed to go car shopping today.
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A Smattering of Selenium #95
Ok twitterverse. After 2 weeks of very few links a day you explode.
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A Smattering of Selenium #94
# sudo wget coffee > adam
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A Smattering of Selenium #93
Did I say 8 days in a row yesterday? I meant 9.
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A Smattering of Selenium #92
What’s that? Eight days in a row? That’s right…
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A Smattering of Selenium #91
As you’ll start to see by the timestamps of things towards the end, I’m running out of ‘new’ stuff and am pulling from the queue now.
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A Smattering of Selenium #90
Eventually I’ll get back on the once-a-week schedule.
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A Smattering of Selenium #89
Figured I would get this out before the computer goes in for surgery.
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A Smattering of Selenium #88
Five days and fifty links later…
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A Smattering of Selenium #87
Avoiding punching things about software packaging by doing the 4th!!!!
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A Smattering of Selenium #86
Look at that! 3 days in a row, and the boy isn’t even gone to school yet and I’ve hit ‘publish’
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A Smattering of Selenium #85
Two days in a row! Take that doubters!
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A Smattering of Selenium #84
What? Its only been 3 months since the last one.
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Selenium Conf: Community
In this series of blog posts we’ve introduced…
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Selenium Conf: Speakers
I may be biased, but I think Selenium Conf ’12 is going to be great.
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Selenium Conf Keynotes: Liz Keogh
The tickets for Selenium Conf ’12 are still on sale for about another week, so there’s still time for you to buy your tickets.
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A Smattering of Selenium #83
Well, might not be in Florida, but how about them juggernaut Blue Jays?
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A Smattering of Selenium #82
Someone explain to me why I’m in Toronto and not Florida?
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A Smattering of Selenium #81
Its March Break (at least here) which means its also Catch Up Week.
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Selenium Conference 2012
Good news, everybody! Selenium Conf ’12 is getting closer!
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Support for Ancient Browsers
The first code checked into the Selenium project’s public repository was in November, 2004.
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A Note About the Cybervillains SSL Certificate
If you’re using Selenium RC to test websites hosted on a secure site (accessed using a URL starting with HTTPS), we strongly recommend that you upgrade to Selenium 2.19. This is because the Cybervillains certificate in previous versions will expire soon, and has been replaced in 2.19 with an updated one. Our thanks to Patrick […]
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A Smattering of Selenium #80
I should have learned not to boast about getting caught up with links.
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A Smattering of Selenium #79
The only links left now are ones currently open in tabs right now.
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A Smattering of Selenium #78
Look! A light at the end of the tunnel!
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A Smattering of Selenium #77
No. Really. A Smattering every day this week and I’ll have the link queue cleared.
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A Smattering of Selenium #76
Post ten links, find seven more to add to the queue.
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A Smattering of Selenium #75
And home. Which mean 100% more internets!
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A Smattering of Selenium #74
It is kinda hard to do these without reliable internet… dear hotels, fix. your. internet.
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A Smattering of Selenium #73
Two Ruby gems…
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A Smattering of Selenium #72
January means its time to escape from under the deadlines I found myself under during December so some of this stuff is a month old (or older!).
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Announcing Selenium Conf ’12
The community around Selenium is the thing that really makes the Selenium project special.
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A Smattering of Selenium #71
Looking like there might also be one later in the week too…
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A Smattering of Selenium #70
That’s it for this week.
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A Smattering of Selenium #69
In honor of this edition I provide… …in which I also date myself.
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A Smattering of Selenium #68
Its been almost a month, so time for a flurry of Smatterings.
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A Smattering of Selenium #67
Spinach is a Cucumber-esque BDD framework that was advertised on twitter as having ‘less regex magic’.
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A Smattering of Selenium #66
Aside from one of the dog’s tummy making noises that imply a big mess to clean up later, this scheduling thing seems to be working out.
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A Smattering of Selenium #65
Trying something new; queuing up the catch-up post while I have time to catch-up.
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A Smattering of Selenium #64
How did I fall behind again already?!?!
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A Smattering of Selenium #63
Watir to WebDriver: Unit Test Frameworks – Well, its ‘big’ news.
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A Smattering of Selenium #62
All opinions, all the time…
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A Smattering of Selenium #61
‘These are the people in your neighbourhood…’
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A Smattering of Selenium #60
This instalment of catch-up week is brought to you by the letters C and I.
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A Smattering of Selenium #59
Its been a month and a half since the last one of these, and the volume of links I have collected illustrates that.
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A Smattering of Selenium #58
And here we go again with more links than I thought I had collected…
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A Smattering of Selenium #57
Phew. The links made it through the Lion installation.
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A Quick Survey on Features
Rather than surprising the general community in ways that we have become somewhat known for, I figured I would try something new.
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A Smattering of Selenium #56
Safari is starting to whinge about how many tabs I have open which means it is time for another post.
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A Smattering of Selenium #55
Last week we released Se-IDE 1.1.0 which now features WebDriver formats and Se 2.1.0 was released about an hour ago.
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A Smattering of Selenium #54
Two Smatterings in two days?!!?
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A Smattering of Selenium #53
Well, since the last Smattering there hasn’t been much in the community.
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A Smattering of Selenium #52
Welcome to the Canada Day edition of the less-than-weekly-now collection of Selenium / Automation links that is the Smattering of Selenium.
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A Smattering of Selenium #51
Two big releases last week…
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A Smattering of Selenium #50
Half a century!
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A Smattering of Selenium #49
Here is the next 10 links as I play catch-up.
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A Smattering of Selenium #48
It’s catch-up time again! Here is the first 10.
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A Smattering of Selenium #47
Nothing says ‘Hello Monday!’ like a batch of links and a wife with a kidney stone.
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A Smattering of Selenium #46
Selenium IDE on Firefox 4 is Available for Testing!
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A Smattering of Selenium #45
So of course by now everyone has seen Selenium 2.0b3: The Next Gen Browser Release and upgraded their rigs.
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A Smattering of Selenium #44
What started out as the week of Capybara rounded itself out fairly nicely
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A Smattering of Selenium #43
The big thing in the new last week was ColdFusion. Yes, ColdFusion.
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A Smattering of Selenium #42
Is this week’s post the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything Selenium?
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A Smattering of Selenium #41
There isn’t an official announcement anywhere (yet) but Selenium 2.0b2 was released a couple hours ago.
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A Smattering of Selenium #40
You would think by now that I wouldn’t be surprised by the number of links I collect in a week.
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Selenium Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we announced on the mailing list that the Selenium project planned to join the Software Freedom Conservancy.
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A Smattering of Selenium #39
Hey look! All caught up — only took a month…
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Bug Bash Aftermath
What a week! I’m almost (almost!) sorry that the Bug Bash is over.
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2.0b1 and Maven
If you’re using Maven and the 2.0b1 release of Selenium, you may be running into some problems getting maven to pick up your tests.
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A Smattering of Selenium #38B
Will today be the day I finish three weeks of catch-up?
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A Smattering of Selenium #38A
No. Really. I’m almost caught up.
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Bug Bash: 24-30 January
When the Selenium and WebDriver projects merged, all those moons ago, we moved the infrastructure from something we hosted to Google Code.
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A Smattering of Selenium #37B
Let’s see how many announcements there were that didn’t get pushed out in a timely manner today shall we?
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A Smattering of Selenium #37A
My scheme for catching up with links last week ran afoul of 900 geeks and their families melting the internets at CodeMash 2.0.1.1.
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A Smattering of Selenium #36B
Second in a week-long series of catch-up posts.
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A Smattering of Selenium #36A
I have drastically fallen behind on the link reporting, but not the collecting, so this week’s Smattering will be multi-part.
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Atoms have come to Selenium IDE
As mentioned in Simon’s Going Atomic: Why? and Going Atomic: How, part of the merging of Selenium and WebDriver is to share common code between the two.
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A Smattering of Selenium #35
(If I wasn’t still recovering from a cold there would be something witty here.)
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Selenium Conference Survey
Great news! Thanks to the initiative of our friends at Sauce Labs, we’re finally ready to host the first-ever Selenium Conference.
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A Smattering of Selenium #34
We’ll start this week with the official announcement of ‘Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner’s Guide’ being available.
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A Smattering of Selenium #33
…and here’s the links!
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A Smattering of Selenium #32
For those people paying attention to the goings-on in the Selenium world, yes, I am skipping something major until some of the details are worked out and announced.
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A Smattering of Selenium #31
The big news for last week was that I released Se-IDE 1.0.8 to very little fanfare.
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A Smattering of Selenium #30
I’ve missed a couple weeks due to travel and a complete system lock which meant I lost all the links I had open but not saved.
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A Smattering of Selenium #29
A fair number of links this week. The vast majority of which were buried in annoying airport internet advertising frames…
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A Smattering of Selenium #28
So we go from not-enough-stuff-to-do-one to wow-this-will-take-awhile.
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A Smattering of Selenium #27
Seems I skipped a week, but that’s okay since there hasn’t been much in terms of volume…
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A Smattering of Selenium #26
It’s Labour Day here, so this post was written to backdrop of Sponge Bob.
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A Smattering of Selenium #25
A day late, but that sort of thing happens when you have family.
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A Smattering of Selenium #24
A bit late, but I’m in California for a Selenium Developers Meetup and my body doesn’t quite know where it is temporally.
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A Smattering of Selenium #23
I was at Agile 2010 in Orlando last week so missed doing the Smattering, so here is two weeks worth of links.
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Selenium at Agile 2010
The Selenium project does not have an ‘official’ presence here at Agile as it is seen as a ‘test after’ tool rather than ‘test first’…
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Selenium 2.0 backend for running IDE test suite via the Se2 Firefox
The GSoC 2010, it’s a great adventure. I’m Raynatou, I come from Burkina and do my internship at SERLI.
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A Smattering of Selenium #22
Happy Simcoe Day. Only a handful of links this week to mention.
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A Smattering of Selenium #21
I thought it had been a slow week — until I looked at how many browser windows I had open.
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The Current Status of Selenium 1 and Selenium 2
In the beginning there was Se1, and it was good. But it could have been better — in ways that WebDriver was starting to be good at.
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A Smattering of Selenium #20
12 hours late, but I was driving draft horses all day so that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it.
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GSoC 2010 – Remote Storage
What’s new for Selenium this summer ? The GSoC of course !!!!
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A Smattering of Selenium #19
I’ve got a full day of driving ahead of me to go to a client so this is the early-morning (for me) edition of the Smattering post.
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A Smattering of Selenium #18
Not too much this week with various holidays around the world, but still managed to dig some things up.
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A Smattering of Selenium #17
Here are the posts dealing with Se, and/or automation in general that caught my eye and interest.
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A Smattering of Selenium #16
I’m going to start posting the Smattering posts here on the main Selenium blog, hopefully each Monday.
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The Future of Selenium Grid
As you likely know by now, after years of stewardship Philippe has stepped down as maintainer of Selenium Grid and has named me the new maintainer.
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Welcome to the official Selenium blog!
Since we moved away from Clearspace for our forums, it’s time we also did the same for our blogging platform. We hope to be much better about posting news, tips, and tricks here going forward.
