Selenium Meetup #27

Hello everyone! Our next Meetup will take place on December 19th at the Autodesk office, Floor 15, Rothschild Blvd 22, Tel Aviv-Yafo.

As usual we will have two presentations and plenty of time to socialize in between...

Agenda:

18:00 - 18:30 Meet & Greet
18:30 - 19:15 Selenium vs Cypress
19:15 - 19:30 Break
19:30 - 20:15 Code vs. Codeless Test Automation: How to Choose?
21:00 - Lights out

Cypress vs Selenium WebDriver: Better, or just different?

Speaker: Gil Tayar, Applitools
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/giltayar/)

There’s a new claim to the throne of functional test automation tools: Cypress.io. Is Cypress fast? Yes. Is Cypress interactive? Yep. Is Cypress reliable? You bet. And best of all… it’s cool!

But is Cypress an alternative to Selenium WebDriver? Does Selenium, the current king of web automation and testing frameworks, cringe in fear for its position, or is it smiling benevolently at the supposed usurper, knowing full well that, well, it’s just a kid!

Is Cypress better than Selenium WebDriver? I get asked this a lot. And frankly, the easiest path of a “this vs that” talk is to try and find out which is “best”. But I will not take that path. Instead, I will try and explain how is Cypress different from Selenium WebDriver.

During this talk we will learn how to write Cypress test, how it’s used, and why it’s different from Selenium WebDriver.

Code vs. Codeless Test Automation: How to Choose?

Speaker: Oren Rubin, Testim.io
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubinoren/)

As codeless automation tools rise in popularity, we'll take a deeper look to see what lies beneath. While many believe that codeless solutions will continue to gain in popularity due to the simplicity of recording tests which empower non-developers with the ability to automate. You'll be surprised how far from the truth this really is.

In this talk, we will compare the pros and cons of both code and codeless options, which will help you make a more clear and sound decision regarding your automation stack.

Oren is the Founder and CEO of Testim.io. He has 20+ years of experience in the software industry, focusing mostly on building products for developers and tester, in companies such as IBM, Wix, Cadence, Applitools, and Testim.io. In addition to being a busy entrepreneur, Oren is a community activist and the co-organizer of the Israeli Google Developer Group meetup and the Selenium-Israel meetup. He has taught at Technion University and mentored at the Google Launchpad Accelerator.