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Re:Signs you are doing continuous testing wrong by weliketocode on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @01:22PM (#18401023)
'not brittle' if you 'manually enter' isn't exactly a glowing review.

There's definitely some good with selenium, but I and others find it is often brittle and doesn't catch errors as reliably as would be ideal.

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Re:Signs you are doing continuous testing wrong by alex__c on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:39AM (#18406994)
The objects under test are brittle and bound to change dramatically. Selenium can't offer you insurance against this.

I now remember a test suite we had on my project (automotive). We tested against the code structure... that is, we would follow a variable's lifetime and check that its value is correct throughout execution. Two releases later, guess which function got slightly refactored and threw off some 20 testcases?

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