It's no secret that Selenium has problems

Some of the well known offenders include...

- It's slow

- Tests are brittle

- You get false positives & finicky results

- It's a real maintenance nightmare

But what most people don't realize is this: Selenium has a bigger problem, and these are just symptoms of it.

The BIG Problem With Selenium

The problem is simple, and yet, a real challenge to solve -- INFORMATION.

Did you know that all of the problems mentioned above are solvable? Well, they are. And most people don't know that. There's either too much information to sift through, not enough for your context, it's out of date, nobody knows about it, or someone solved for it and never shared their experience.

The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed.

-William Gibson

Information Overload

Unfortunately there are more resources to dig through than you have time or know what to do with.

With blogs, videos, documentation, forums, meetups, conferences, books, and mailing lists, the signal to noise ratio is all out of whack. This is because none of these resources were designed to help you use Selenium successfully.

They may help you cobble together parts of a solution, solving short term problems. But odds are what you come up with will ultimately turn into something slow and brittle that is rife with false positives that is hard to maintain and untrusted by you and your team.

Wouldn't It Be Nice To Have Reliable Test Results You And Your Team Could Trust?

It's not your fault that this is the end result of your hard work. You were set up for failure before you even started. So let's level the playing field.

In order to use Selenium effectively, here is a list of what you need to do:

Decompose an existing web application to identify what to test

Identify which browsers to test with

Pick the best language for you and your team

Setup Selenium to work with each browser you care about

Write maintainable and reusable Selenium tests that will be cross-browser compatible and performant

Build an integrated feedback loop to automate test runs and find issues fast

Setup your own infrastructure or connect to a cloud provider

Dramatically improve test times with parallelization

Navigate the Selenium landscape to find information on your own

How do you stack up? Odds are you have some of these points nailed down. But wouldn't you rest easier knowing you had all of them?

You Can Make This Happen and "The Selenium Guidebook" will teach you how

Write tests that you and your team can trust with the techniques in "The Selenium Guidebook". With them you will be able to release software with confidence, knowing that your application has stable, fast, and working tests that cover everything that matters.

Who This Is For

The Selenium Guidebook, Video Walkthroughs, and Cheat Sheets are all designed with Testers in mind -- primarily focusing on helping you get started on the right foot. But it's also perfect for the Tester who is in the midst of an automation implementation, and likewise, for Developers who are interested in learning about Selenium and how to implement it well.

You Don't Need To Be A Developer To Do This

In order to do automated testing well you don't need to be a Developer, but you do need to write some code. But don't worry, I'll show you the bits you need to know along with some simple examples to help you get comfortable with these concepts and quickly put them into practice.

See What People Are Saying

Quick browse through the "Selenium Guidebook" tells me it's def. worth it, and I don't know a thing about ruby. Thanks, @TourDeDave — ken pace (@kennypace) December 19, 2013

@kevindewalt @TourDeDave I'd love to eventually incorporate this with the new Selenium docs. — uǝsɟloʇ sɐǝɹpuɐ (@tolfsen) December 18, 2013

(Andreas is a core committer of the Selenium project)

Buy this book. NOW. "Selenium Guidebook - A step-by-step guide on how to use Selenium successfully" by @TourDeDave https://t.co/GVYTNWXZ75 — Jason Huggins (@hugs) December 19, 2013

(Jason is the creator of Selenium)

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