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The Man Who Invented Selenium Also Built Its Replacement

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The Man Who Invented Selenium Also Built Its Replacement
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There's a specific kind of credibility that comes from someone destroying their own creation.

Jason Huggins built Selenium in 2004. It became the foundation of an entire industry; the WebDriver protocol he helped establish is still a W3C standard, running underneath a huge share of the world's test automation two decades later. So when Huggins is the one leading the charge on Vibium AI, a framework built on the premise that we shouldn't be writing test scripts at all anymore, it's worth paying attention to — not because it's guaranteed to win, but because the person most qualified to know exactly what's wrong with Selenium is the one saying so.

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