Last year, one of our enterprise clients approached us after investing nearly $1.2 million in setting up a new test automation initiative. They had purchased licenses for leading automation tools, hired additional engineers, and built a robust Selenium-based framework. However, six months later, their leadership team was frustrated. The project looked great on paper, but they were struggling to…
A few years ago, while setting up a large-scale test automation project for an eCommerce giant, I encountered one of the most frustrating challenges in Selenium test automation; handling dynamic web elements in Selenium Webdriver. Our test suite was designed to cover thousands of test cases, yet every UI update caused major test failures. XPath locators broke overnight, elements…
Back in 2023, I sat across from a frazzled QA lead at a client meeting. The project had been delayed—again—because their test suite was crawling. Regression tests were taking hours, the flaky tests kept breaking, and the team was at their wit’s end. Their automation suite? Built entirely on Selenium. Their Selenium-based tests were running for hours in their…
