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by troysandal 2839 days ago
End to End Testing Flakiness - at my last company we spent a large amount of engineering time automating end-to-end tests. In the end we found them flaky, maintenance heavy and couldn’t get to 100% browser coverage. E2E tests are of huge value but their costs are still too high.
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Yep. We were just getting a handle on it and then the new wave of frameworks have largely broken it again due to browser DOM's not being stable. Basically gave up automating testing of our last VueJS project after 5 years of successfully automating traditional web stacks.
This so hard. You'd think we'd have it figured out by now.
+1 to this. Huge pain point at several startups I have been at.