How Big Buck Bunny helped track down bugs

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Using real media playback in tests uncovers concrete bugs rather than proving compliance with a spec: a set of helpers that control playback and wait for events (the play helper and waitForEnd that return promises) catches race conditions, integration failures and even Chrome throttling under high CPU. Tests use short 3-to-4-second clips, store media locally, log events during stabilisation, and scale by limiting parallel runs so the helpers reliably resolve and tests stay deterministic.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:49Benefits to Testing with Real Media
3. 2:29Inconsistent Tracking Events
4. 5:25Testing Tracking Events
5. 6:56Log all Media Events
6. 7:29Monitoring Your Test Resources

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