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My articles published in September

This September was quite productive, as i had 4 test automation related articles published, which i recommend reading:

Enjoy.

Using Retries in tests can hide the bugs

We are quite familiar with the concept of randomly failing automated tests. Those are the tests that even though there is no change in the feature they are testing, they either fail randomly at the same step, or they fail at random steps. Handling the results of such tests can be tricky, and some teams choose to simply retry a test if it failed. But is that the best option? Here are my thoughts. Continue reading Using Retries in tests can hide the bugs

Quick Tip: Selenium – Taking screenshots (of regular tests and test failures)

The What

During Selenium test execution, i want to store a screenshot of what is displayed in the browser to understand in what conditions the test ran.

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