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Re:How to make Selenium tests reliable, scalable, and mainta... by drothlis on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @11:17AM (#9930098)
I'm not sure this satisfies your parent poster's requirement of: "if it fails, you know about it pretty soon, without the need for long timeouts."
Re:How to make Selenium tests reliable, scalable, and mainta... by crdoconnor on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @11:27PM (#9933810)
Well, you need to have a timeout.

You can make the timeout shorter when running the test on a dev environment, though, so you get quicker feedback about errors.