Congratulations, you are tasked with setting up Selenium for a few projects so that the test automation can be optimized, scalable, predictable and cost-effective. Sounds hard? It does, because we often bump into pop-up windows, default browser settings, Selenium issues, user certificates, etc. We'll learn how to avoid these problems instead of wasting days on solving them one by one. In addition, we will learn how to scale and maintain the Selenium infrastructure - 6 common challenges which will meet and learn how to overcome.

1. 6 common challenges setting up Selenium
Slavy Slavov
cofounder @equafy

2. Automation, not AutoMagic
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3. 1. Setup and optimization
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4. Setup and optimization
Selenium hub
Multiple OS/Browser nodes
Disable auto updates
Hanging browsers
Multiple browsers per machine
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2. Browser Settings

6. Internet Explorer
• Protected mode
• Popups, default
browser, first
run, security
• IE11
• Mixed content
• User vs. Local
• Microsoft Docs?
Safari
• plist config
format
• plutil
Global
• Valid certificate,
wrong domain
• Self-signed
certificates
CyberVillains
• Compatibility
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7. 3. Scaling
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Static Dynamic Self-sufficient nodes

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9. Maintenance
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Caching
History
Sessions
Speed
WebDriver
upgrades
Deployment
Containers?

10. 5. Upgrades
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11. 6. Visual Validations
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12. Visual automatgic
validations
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DOM data driven comparisons
Image objects map comparisons
Pixel level with threshold
Are there others?

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slavy.slavov@equafy.com