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by hugs 3353 days ago
It's not strange​ at all. I appreciate the article's analysis. As the founder of the Selenium project, I frequently hear people blame Selenium for their problems. Sure, Selenium isn't perfect, but it seems like it is so much easier for people to blame their tools instead of questioning other things. But I understand why people do it. For a typical software developer, without an obvious cause for flakiness, the apparent randomness of a flaky test tends to make it easier (and plausibly justifiable) to "shoot the messenger".
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OT, but thank you for Selenium!
Thanks, although credit these days rightfully goes to the huge multi-company and org team effort. (In other words, at this point, there are tons of people to blame for those flaky tests!)