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Workshop Intermediate

Begin your journey to be a Selenium Committer

Proposal status is Rejected
Session Description

Selenium recently celebrated two decades of its existence. Through all these years many highly motivated individuals and a dedicated community has kept the project alive and kicking. Multitude of companies big and small use Selenium. Companies are also built around Selenium and doing quite well for themselves. Selenium an open source project which provides solution to automate the browser for your various requirements can be implemented using the programming language of your choice.

The talk aims to help motivated individuals who would like to give back to Selenium, by contributing to the Selenium Documentation. Through my personal experience I would like to share and help people who attend this talk get started with their journey of helping and supporting Selenium Documentation, and become Selenium Committers

The following would be the structure of the talk-

a. Introduction, and About Selenium Project [5 mins]

b. Navigating and understanding the current Selenium Documentation [5 mins]

c. Setting the system/preparing to enable working on Selenium Documentation - [5 mins]

d. Identifying an issue and then begin to provide a resolution for it [15 mins]

e. Doing it for all Selenium Translations [5 mins]

f. Committing work and then waiting for it to be accepted [5 mins]

g. Questions /Discussions [5 mins]

Key Takeaways

Through this talk, you will be able understand the Selenium Project Structure at Github.
You will be able to explore areas of improvement in the Selenium Documentation.
You will be able to make a contribution to improve Selenium Documentation and begin your journey to be an open source contributor and with that help the community of Selenium.
You will be able to understand and connect with people from the project to facilitate.

References

Session Categories

Contributing to FOSS
Community

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Speakers

Pallavi Sharma
Pallavi Sharma Founder | 5 Elements Learning

Pallavi is a versatile professional with a rich experience spanning two decades. She has contributed in various capacities as an individual contributor, technical product manager, scrum master, intellectual property rights coordinator and coach on various open source tools for test automation, programming for non programmer throughout her career and continues.

She is the Founder at 5 Elements Learning, an E Learning Organization and Mosaic Words, a Green Literature Publishing company. She is a published author of 4 books on Selenium. She is a committer to the Selenium Project, currently with Selenium Documentation. She is an active participant for various international conferences on Testing, Automation, AI and other similar areas, where she serves as a reviewer, judge, organizer, speaker and enthusiastic attendee. She also holds various certifications in her field, interests and passions.

Beyond her professional pursuits, Pallavi spends active time in writing, reading, travel, nature watching and conservation. She is dedicated to giving back to society and environment through both her time and resources. She believes in #BeKind, starting with self.

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