One thing I found surprising at Agile this year was the lack of representation of both Watir and Selenium. Selenium, other than Chris’ session wasn’t really mentioned and I didn’t see anything using Watir or people discussing it. So I did what anyone would do who has fairly strong opinions on/about an under-represented subject would do and hosted an Open Jam on Selenium.

Open Jam was a big, almost living-room space where you could host or attend a mini session on any topic you want. I sent out a tweet (which were broadcast on a big screen), put something on the lists and then let things fall where they landed.

We ended up having 6 or 7 people show up to talk about Selenium; ‘best practices’, I had a problem with X, can you recommend a solution, etc.. One person, Mike Longin, beat me well to posting a summary of his time at our table.

Jason Huggins also made an appearance as well. We were going to hack on the Se-IDE a bit, but that got rather sidetracked. What can you do…

Here are the posters I put up on the wall, as well links to posts that have a bit more detail on what they are trying to convey.


The Selenium Value Chain


Evolution of an Automated Test