Speaker Details

Simon Stewart

Biography: Simon Stewart has been a professional software developer since before the millennium began. He was the lead of the Selenium project for over a decade and is the co-editor of the W3C WebDriver and WebDriver Bidi specs. As well as browser automation, Simon is also interested in monorepos, blazing fast byte-for-byte reproducible builds, and scaling software development efficiently. He draws on his experience working in Open Source, ThoughtWorks, Google, and Facebook. He was the tech lead of Facebook’s build tool team, and is currently working on projects using Bazel, for which he’s the maintainer of several rulesets. Simon lives in London with his family and dog.

Presentation: Test Selection in the 21st Century

With the dawn of AI our CI systems will be overwhelmed by the number of tests that need to be run. Our only hope is to run fewer of them. How do we find the subset of tests that will let us know software is safe to deploy? We have the technology!