April 21, 2024, 11:18 p.m. | davert

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Dealing with flaky tests is one of the biggest pain points for anyone doing browser and end-to-end test automation. You know the drill - tests that started to fail without any reason. Intermittent failures that sap confidence in the test suite and prevent stable deployments. Maintaining tests can take up to 50% of the time for QA test automation engineer.


Usually, the cause of failure is quite simple: the element name has changed, or a new modal window appeared. …

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