Hi, I am in the process of learning test automation, Selenium + Java at the moment. It seems that still, the best way to learn it is some kind of apprenticeship. (But there is an issue that there you will not learn best practices, just this given person/company practices). Most courses just skim topics, are not project focused, and do not talk about common problems and connected tools.
What was your approach to learn, do you have any sources to recommend? Is test automation your line of professional work?
Yes, this has been my experience with Selenium so far. We actually have to set our tests to retry 3 times because of flaky Selenium issues causing failures
I just rewrote a test to bypass Selenium and use a different method to accomplish the same task and not only should it be more stable but the test ran in half the time
unfortunately all of our front end tests are very Selenium driven so rewriting them will probably be a lot of work, and of course I don’t have the luxury of being in possession of large amounts of free time