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The W3C has officially moved the WebDriver protocol to recommended state, which means it is officially supported and endorsed by W3C. The Selenium Project added stable support for the W3C protocol in Selenium v3.8 through v3.11 and has indicated plans to migrate entirely to the new protocol in all upcoming versions. There are three main advantages to the W3C protocol: There will be an agreed to [...]

Nightwatch.js is a Selenium wrapper that provides several out-of-the-box commands and assertions for performing various operations on the page. The commands and assertions are clean and straightforward, enabling you to develop tests very quickly using Javascript (specifically, Node.js). It allows you to create custom helpers to increase your testing capabilities. In this article, we’ll [...]

Move over, Selenium 2. It's time to upgrade to Selenium 3. I have always been an early adopter. I can't help it. So it’s hard to believe it has been about six months since Selenium 3 released its first beta version, and that I’ve only recently been able to take it for a test drive. The upgrade from Selenium 2 to Selenium 3 was practically effortless. (I recommend that people start a [...]

Engineering Productivity is an area in Zalando where our main goal is to help other teams test their products by providing great tools and services. For UI testing execution, we offer teams a mix of internal and external tools. Some teams use docker-selenium, a dockerized Selenium Grid created by our colleague Leo Gallucci, and other teams use Sauce Labs. Each tool has its own advantages and [...]

So, I made it out to the London Selenium Conference last week and I thought I'd share with you a quick recap of some of the bits I found interesting, several of which reveal what may be coming next in the world of Selenium automation. Moving Beyond the Page Object Model Whenever I've used page objects in the past I've always felt that while they have many benefits, but also that they were only [...]

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent webinar, "Moving From a Selenium Grid to the Cloud - A Real Life Story", featuring Anshul Sharma, Senior QA Engineer at Emmi Solutions. During her presentation, Anshul discussed how Emmi Solutions made the move from testing on an in-house Selenium Grid to the Cloud, while also expanding test coverage and moving toward a full [...]

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent webinar, “Selenium and Appium Training Courses from Sauce Labs“, featuring Sauce Labs’ Director of Product Marketing, Ken Drachnik, and Automation Specialist Kevin Berg. In this webinar, Ken and Kevin announced the availability of our three new technical training programs - Selenium 101, Appium 101, and Sauce Labs [...]