20 Feb 2008 Monday, Feb 25: Get The Latest Scoop on Selenium and Meet the Core Team!

Google will be hosting the world’s first Selenium Users Open Evening in Mountain View, CA on Monday, February 25 from 6:30PM to 9:00PM. The event will feature a panel session and a series of lightning talks by representatives from all the major Selenium projects.

Come join us for this unique opportunity to meet the Selenium core team, get the latest scoop on web testing, discuss Selenium vision and future, share your ideas or finally ask the questions that you’ve been dying to ask!

So what is Selenium? For the uninitiated, Selenium is a collection of Open Source tools for functional testing of web application. Selenium technology is cross-browser (IE, Firefox and Safari), cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and Mac) and language-agnostic – You can write your tests in Ruby, Java, C#, Python, Perl, PHP or even plain HTML! In fact, if you’re really not in the mood to write any tests at all, the Selenium IDE can record, save and play back any browsing session in Firefox. Quite handy, especially if your business analyst use this feature to communicate the hard-to-reproduce bug that he just discovered! Last but not least, Selenium is free and enjoy wide community support.

I will be participating in the Selenium Users Open Evening as the author and principal developer of Selenium Grid, a tool that transparently distribute Selenium infrastructure on multiple machines so that you can run your web tests in parallel – without changing a single line of your existing Selenium tests. Selenium Grid can dramatically speed up web testing by leveraging your existing computing infrastructure, and it has been used to bring builds that used to take hours down to a couple of minutes. Be ready for some announcements and exciting demos on Selenium Grid during ”Selenium Users Open Evening”.

Hope to see you there. Don’t forget to sign up.