Life After Selenium

Selenium has been the unchallenged leader in open source UI testing since 2004. As the web evolved, Selenium adapted and abstracted. This abstraction came with a cost and now UI testing is rightly understood to be “slow” and "flaky". Test automation architecture was shaped into “pyramids” to avoid this performance penalty. QA could not shift left because our results were too slow or unreliable. A lot has changed since 2004 and there are now open source alternatives that will make you change your framework as well as your test strategy.


In this presentation, we'll demonstrate the inherent problems of Selenium and how these new tools solve them. We'll (cross our fingers and) do some live demos with selenium, webdriver.io, puppeteer, playwright and cypress. We'll end with Selenium 4.0 and what it might mean for your current project.