Request to the Selenium Developers — Please Improve the Documentation
A sincere request to the Selenium developers and contributors:
Please consider making the official Selenium documentation more complete, clearer, and more consistently maintained so even a beginner can get the right understanding for them.
It would be extremely helpful if every major Selenium feature, API, configuration, and behaviour had clear documentation with:
- Simple explanations of what it does and why it exists
- Clear usage examples
- Detailed API documentation
- Configuration and setup details
- Architecture and internal behaviour where relevant
- Common use cases and limitations
- Troubleshooting information
- Migration guides for major changes
- Proper, detailed changelogs for every release, for easy understanding.
- Clear documentation of deprecated, changed, and removed features
- Examples showing differences between Selenium versions
- Documentation kept in sync with the actual implementation
In particular, proper changelogs would be very valuable. When upgrading Selenium, developers should be able to quickly understand what changed, what was fixed, what was added, what was deprecated, and whether any existing code may be affected.
Selenium is a critical project for the automation ecosystem. Having documentation that is as strong and detailed as the project itself would make it significantly easier for developers to learn, upgrade, troubleshoot, and use Selenium correctly.
This is simply a request to the Selenium team and contributors: please continue investing in clear, comprehensive, and properly maintained documentation and release changelogs.
Official website: https://www.selenium.dev/