Selenium creator and Sauce Labs co-founder Jason Huggins recently gave a great presentation on 'Selenium Best Practices' to the San Francisco Selenium Meetup Group. Visit http://saucelabs.com.blog to see the presentation in its entirety.

1. How to Avoid
Selenium Poisoning

2. Intent Action

3. Action
• open 'www.example.com'
• clickAndWait 'link=Log in'
• type 'User Id', 'hugs@saucelabs.com'
• type 'password', '12345678'
• clickAndWait 'Log In'

4. Intent
• Log in
• Change password
• Modify profile
• Log out

5. 1. Write intent.
2. Map to actions.

6. Seek higher level
abstractions

7. Hudson
Ant
JUnit / TestNG
Selenium

8. Hudson
Ant
JUnit / TestNG
Business Specific Library of Functions
Selenium

9. Start small

10. It’ll get big anyway

11. What to start with?
• Smoke tests
• “Money path”
• New features

12. Benefits of Short Tests
• Easier to read
• Easier to write
• Easier to debug/maintain
• Easier to parallelize

13. "How to set up test infrastructure?"

14. Unit of Work

15. Servers
Time
Unit of Work

16. Servers
Time
Unit of Work

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%&&'())***+,-#./"+.01)'%0&02)$345)678

18. "Post WebDriver/Selenium 2.0, where
do you see the future of automated
web testing?"

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32. Selenium 2?

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35. Selenium Remote Control
Selenium RC Server
Python, Ruby,
Your Awesome
Java, C#, or Perl HTTP HTTP HTTP
Web App
Test Script
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36. Selenium 2
Selenium RC Server
Python, Ruby,
Your Awesome
Java, C#, or Perl HTTP HTTP HTTP
Web App
Test Script
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37. Python, Ruby,
Your Awesome
Java, C#, or Perl HTTP HTTP
Web App
Test Script
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38. Python, Ruby,
Your Awesome
Java, C#, or Perl C/C++ HTTP
Web App
Test Script
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40. But... Java... Is... Still... In... There...
Selenium Grid
Python, Ruby,
Your Awesome
Java, C#, or Perl HTTP HTTP HTTP
Web App
Test Script

41. But... Java... Is... Still... In... There...
Selenium Remote
Server
Python, Ruby, Ye Ol' Internet
Java, C#, or Perl HTTP (Sauce Labs) HTTP HTTP
Test Script
... but now only when you need it.

42. Better Control
• Native Keyboard & Mouse Events
• Same Origin Policy / XSS / HTTP(S)
• Pop-ups, dialogs
– Basic Authentication
– Self-signed certificates
– File upload/download
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43. Cleaner API
• WebDriver Object
• WebElement Objects