Presentation slide for the award ceremony for Rakuten Technology & Innovation Awards 2019 (https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/update/2019/1021_01.html)

1. Spread of test automation and
Selenium community in Japan
Nozomi Ito
@ito_nozomi

2. What is test automation?
p Manual test
n Human manipulates the web browser
p Selenium automated test
n Test program manipulates the web browser
Selenium
Tester BrowserManipulate
BrowserManipulate

3. What is Selenium?
p World’s most famous browser testing tool
p Open source

4. Date back to 2012
p I established test automation company “TRIDENT Inc.”
p I wanted to make Selenium popular, but:
n Small number of Selenium users in Japan
n No Selenium community in Japan

5. 2013
My first challenge – creating community
p Still no Selenium community in Japan
p So, I launched by myself!
p Soon 100 members joined the web forum
Nikkei XTECH https://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/it/article/NEWS/20130709/490324/ (2019/11/4)

6. 2014
p Our first meet-up happened
p Selenium creator, Jason Huggins, came to Japan!
Publickey https://www.publickey1.jp/blog/14/selenium-3.jpg (2019/11/5)
Publickey https://www.publickey1.jp/blog/14/selenium-1.jpg (2019/11/5)

7. 2015-2017
p Periodical meet-ups
p 3 Selenium committers came to Japan!
gihoy.jp https://gihyo.jp/assets/images/news/report/2017/07/2601/thumb/TH800_001.jpg (2019/11/5)
gihoy.jp https://gihyo.jp/assets/images/news/report/2017/07/2601/thumb/TH800_002.jpg (2019/11/5)
gihoy.jp https://gihyo.jp/assets/images/news/report/2017/07/2601/003.jpg (2019/11/5)

8. Community members
p Gradually increased
Meet-up
Forum
(Google Group)
Chat room
(Slack)
1st (2014.1.18) 193 -
2nd (2014.10.18) 340 -
3rd (2016.2.6) 439 139
4th (2016.12.18) 484 246
Now (2019.12.4) 532 617

9. My second challenge – SeleniumConf
p Request of having the global Selenium Conf in Japan
p Lots of uncertainties
n Can we attract enough sponsors and attendees?
n Who takes financial responsibility?
p With the backup of ASTER, our planning had started!
Google Groups
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/seleniumjp/Selenium$20Conf%7Csort:date/seleniumjp/xHJS8nlzUms/tvnNPLBQBQAJ (2019/11/5)

10. 2019.4
SeleniumConf Tokyo
p 430 attendees from 26 countries
p 16 big company sponsors
p Great organizing team!
flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/157768372@N04/47007925794/ (2019/11/5)
flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/157768372@N04/40907697043/ (2019/11/5)

11. 2019
SeConf gives me new opportunities
p Selenium Community Kansai branch has been launched
p Speak at international conferences
n AppiumConf 2019, TCSE 2019, RTC 2019
Connpass https://seleniumjp.connpass.com/event/133553/ (2019/11/5)
flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/182043856@N02/48074128928/in/album-72157709111138387/ (2019/11/5)

12. My next challenge – AI x Test automation
p Overcoming remaining difficulties of test automation
by AI technology
n Set up complexity (especially for mobile)
n Scripting difficulty for non-programmer
n Maintenance cost

13. My next challenge – AI x Test automation
p Magic Pod (https://magic-pod.com/en)
AI-powered
readable script
Zero set up
for mobile
AI-powered
self-healing
Coming soon

14. I believe this challenge
will change the landscape of
Japan’s (and global)
test automation again!