Ask HN: Selenium is gone, How do you do SPA UI testing?

4 pointseshlomo7y ago4 comments

4 comments

onion2k7y ago

What makes you think Selenium is gone?

fhoffa7y ago

Selenium IDE was deprecated last year - maybe that?

- https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-s...

"The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work."

Alternatives:

- https://www.katalon.com/resources-center/blog/selenium-ide-a...

My own metrics, comparing attention on Stack Overflow:

- Katalon Studio immediately started getting attention on Stack Overflow after Selenium IDE was discontinued.

- In Q2 2017 Robot Framework already had more pageviews on Stack Overflow than Selenium IDE. The gap has continued to grow since the deprecation notice.

- In any case, Protractor is the one with the most attention on Stack Overflow between these alternatives.

- https://imgur.com/a/Jpe9KGl

onion2k7y ago

Selenium WebDriver (aka Selenium 2.0) and Selenium IDE are different projects.

Protractor is a test runner for Angular JS that uses Selenium WebDriver to talk to browsers. It's very much alive, as are all the other test runner options (Nightwatch, Cypress, etc).

noah-kun7y ago

I read it in the title of an Ask HN thread

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

4 comments

onion2k7y ago

What makes you think Selenium is gone?

fhoffa7y ago

Selenium IDE was deprecated last year - maybe that?

- https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-s...

"The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work."

Alternatives:

- https://www.katalon.com/resources-center/blog/selenium-ide-a...

My own metrics, comparing attention on Stack Overflow:

- Katalon Studio immediately started getting attention on Stack Overflow after Selenium IDE was discontinued.

- In Q2 2017 Robot Framework already had more pageviews on Stack Overflow than Selenium IDE. The gap has continued to grow since the deprecation notice.

- In any case, Protractor is the one with the most attention on Stack Overflow between these alternatives.

- https://imgur.com/a/Jpe9KGl

onion2k7y ago

Selenium WebDriver (aka Selenium 2.0) and Selenium IDE are different projects.

Protractor is a test runner for Angular JS that uses Selenium WebDriver to talk to browsers. It's very much alive, as are all the other test runner options (Nightwatch, Cypress, etc).

noah-kun7y ago

I read it in the title of an Ask HN thread

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse