Selenium

I'm so proud to work at Sauce Labs, a company that truly cares about FOSS and doesn't just throw money at a project for marketing exposure but through actual engineering and volunteer time, blood, sweat and tears... well, maybe not as much blood. Thank you to 🤖 Jason Huggins for inspiring and enabling millions upon millions of testers and developers over the course of 20 amazing years! Sauce Labs is honored to be able to continue to support Selenium throughout our entire history. Also, I heard there are some amazing Selenium Falcon shirts floating around... hit me up if you'd like one. I might make you contribute to the project first, though. :-)

Selenium project has sponsorship opportunities, and the package descriptions have been updated with the addition of Development level. https://lnkd.in/deemmjxN We also have microsponsorship and experiment with self-service sponsorship for Bronze level through open collective (https://lnkd.in/gJzzwMwE) and GitHub. If a selenium sponsor badge on your GitHub profile is just the thing you need, you find that at https://lnkd.in/dCs5MGBg

Selenium is excited to announce Sauce Labs as one of our development partners. They have been helping Selenium for many years and are committed to keeping Selenium going forward! https://lnkd.in/e5FxEJzk

Very happy to have BrowserStack as one of our development partners!

Selenium is proud to announce BrowserStack as one of our development partners. We have reached 20 years old this year and these partnerships will keep us going for the next 20 years! https://lnkd.in/edMxA3DJ

Four latest releases include SeleniumManager that reports use statistics. And because of that, we know we have 2.5M users and most popular language of use is Python. Statistics don't cover old versions but this already teaches us that Selenium does real work for browser automation, globally. You can dig into the details at https://lnkd.in/dS6DEDDd Snapshot of statistics from #SeleniumConf State of Union Keynote, June 21st 2024 celebrating #20YearsOfSelenium.

Selenium is the biggest open source success story never told. We're now at exactly 20 years since the first lines of code were written. Since then, it has launched countless careers and companies. Did you know the Selenium Test Automation User Group on LinkedIn alone has almost 250K users?! 🤯 (👋🏽, Mike Verinder ) But we're not done yet. These days, browser automation tools are caught up in the AI hype wave as an enabler for AI agents—when combined with large language models, they automate a browser to complete human tasks. And, of course, I hear some people use Selenium to test their websites, too. 😎 And yet, I'm not sure I've ever seen a long form mainstream article about the Selenium ecosystem—users from individuals to every big tech company, project volunteers, conference and meetup organizers, cloud infrastructure companies (some VC-funded to the moon... and some humbly bootstrapped), and a litany of test automation consulting services around the world. (Nevermind the data scrapers and click farmers— you know who you are. But they don't like to be talked about anyway.) The Selenium industry (which, it totally is—you can buy fancy reports that say so!) by itself is worth billions of dollars in market cap. And yet. Even in the tech press, Selenium never gets mentioned when talking about open source success stories. I guess there's not a lot of drama or links to be clicked when you don't change your license, even in the face of competition from big tech companies. Selenium is just... there. This massive, invisible, and awesome thing we've created. Long story long, thank you to everyone who's ever used it, supported it, or contributed to it. Good thing we didn't do it for the fame and glory, huh?

#SeleniumConf celebrates 20 years of #Selenium. State of the union is solid. There's a good history, and a bright future that mentions #BiDi #Appium and #EcosystemProjects and existing and growing #community. If you want to be a part of any of this, there's a lot of work you can discover and volunteer for. Start by joining #SeleniumSlack https://lnkd.in/djtaAj37 or by talking to anyone already contributing from some corner of the project.

#SeleniumConf In / Online runs tomorrow June 21st 9.30 IST onwards. We are excited to bring together hundreds of participants, a community organizing group and the lovely sponsors. Grateful for #Applitools #BrowserStack #LambdaTest #SauceLabs and #Specmatic for enabling the community event. You still have time to join as this event takes place fully online. https://lnkd.in/dD-3W-PY

Last week, we had our first celebration of our 20th anniversary 🎉 We listened to music from 2004 and told stories of what we did 20 years ago. Then, we had an AMA with the Selenium, Appium, and WebdriverIO developers. 🤓 We ended up with good food, drinks, and great conversations. We are looking forward to the next celebration in a few months! 🗓 🎊 🎂 A big shout out to Tristan Lombard for hosting the event and to all the Sauce Labs folks for helping and hosting the event in their office. If you want one of the commemorative t-shirts, contribute to the Selenium project and win one! https://lnkd.in/ePfhxUxJ