How I learned to stop worrying and love record and playback
- Date
- February 22, 2019
- Time
- 10:00 – 10:45
- Stage
- Stage A
- Format
- Talk
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Language
- English
- Level
- For beginners
Record and playback tools like Selenium IDE have a stigma attached to them in our industry — they’re not worth your time, they produce tests that are impossible to maintain, and they’re only for non-technical people.
But with the new Selenium IDE, that’s all just a bad rap.
In this talk Dave Haeffner will squash the stigma by showing you examples of how Selenium IDE can reliably augment and level-up your testing practice regardless of your team’s test automation maturity or your level of technical experience. He’ll also share how he went from a record-and-playback naysayer to a Selenium IDE maintainer.
Dave Haeffner
Software Developer at Applitools, Israel
Dave Haeffner is writer of Elemental Selenium – a free, once weekly Selenium tip newsletter read by thousands of testing professionals.
He’s also creator and maintainer of the-internet (an open-source web app that’s perfect for writing automated tests against), author of The Selenium Guidebook, and an active member of the Selenium project.
As a Software Developer at Applitools he works full-time as a maintainer of Selenium IDE.
He’s helped numerous companies successfully implement automated acceptance testing; including The Motley Fool, ManTech International, Sittercity, and Animoto. He’s also spoken at numerous conferences and meet-ups around the world about automated functional testing.
