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5 Ways to Boost Automation Effectiveness

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Talkat TestCon Vilnius 2018 · 2018-10-16..10-18· [testing, developer-experience]

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name:Nikolaj Tolkaciov
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/QoF3sOmHeQk
slides:none on file

summary

Five concrete fixes and measurable outcomes: false positives drop to zero by pinning exact failures and adding a cheap 1s explicit wait where animations break clicks; locator injection with an end-to-end- prefix eliminates brittle 27‑deep XPaths; test data becomes maintenance‑free by restoring a trimmed 50 MB backup / 16s restore before each run; database routing gives isolated CI/dev test DBs; refactor engine tests to clean code and stop overcomplicated helpers, saving ~80% execution time on some suites.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 1:373. Test data maintenance
  3. 34:322. Injecting custom locators to the application
  4. 36:13Questions?

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