Surviving Growing from Zero to 15,000 Selenium Tests
summary
An automation program grows from zero to thousands: 0 to 9,000 tests (title claims 15,000) while moving from Selenium IDE → RC → WebDriver. Tests become brittle and slow — a suite takes about 16 hours — so teams build backing APIs and factories, inject cookies to skip login, break out critical CRUD checks into a 30–45 minute fast suite, and scale with virtualization and Selenium Grid. Test code receives regular refactoring and DRY practices.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:59Basic Validation Tests
- 7:16Backing Api
- 8:13Focus on Value
- 12:21Testability
- 15:38Treat Your Test Code like Your Production Code
