I have such emotional damage with Selenium. But atlas the limits of the tools at the time.

Puppeteer was such a breathe of fresh air.

I wrote so many sophisticated, nearly magical Selenium helpers in PHP for massive test suites for a fairly prominent website in the early 2000s. I remember simultaneously having a sense of great accomplishment and deep shame and frustration, haha. It was so hard to build good testing tools. I think we did alright, though.

These days I write automated UI tests with barely a second thought. It has gotten so much easier.

It turns out it came out in 2004. I had no idea I was working with cutting edge testing software at the time. That also explains why it was so rough on the edges and there were so few resources to draw on to get it working better in edge cases. Although it was kind of brutal, I think selenium taught me a ton about asynchronicity and concurrency. That was probably good for my career