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I wish the Selenium (and Appium) projects would get mentioned in these kinds of conversations more. When starting these projects, I was very intentional that we
by hugs 3y ago
I wish the Selenium (and Appium) projects would get mentioned in these kinds of conversations more. When starting these projects, I was very intentional that we set things up to not screw over users down the road and that we set things up so that multiple commercial vendors running SaaS services (not just my own: Sauce Labs and Tapster) could succeed, too. And, yet, the success of the Selenium ecosystem to thrive for 19(!?) years is basically invisible in most discussions about open source funding and incentives.
- auggierose 3y agoDo you have a writeup somewhere about this?
- hugs 3y agoNo. Maybe that's why it never gets mentioned anywhere. Maybe I should do a podcast tour or something, too?
- no_wizard 3y agoyes, yes you should. I highly encourage this. And sit down with Gergely Orosz over at Pragmatic Engineer, he'd be a good person to get a written interview with
- hugs 3y agoIronically, he's the advisor for a test tool/company combo that specifically markets themselves as better than Appium (with a quote endorsement from him on their homepage), so he's either the best or worst person to do an interview. :)
- slowmovintarget 3y agoNo one can repeat or cite the story not told.
- thtmnisamnstr 3y agoYou should sit down with the OP and author of this article, Adam. He has a really good podcast called Corecursive, and your story seems right in its wheelhouse.
- hitchdev 3y agoI sometimes wonder if Selenium wouldn't have been able to beat back Playwright more if it had reserved the rights to run SaaS services on top and used some of the proceeds to fund more development. It's a fantastic tool but I think Playwright wouldn't have been able to take off like it did if more dev time were dedicated to it.