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by EdwardDiego 3992 days ago
Improve them how though? Speed? Reliability? If it's just a nicer API, that's all well and good, but until the key problems I face with Selenium are solved (slow and non-deterministic tests) then a nicer API to it is just rearranging deck-chairs on the Titanic.
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karlosmid 3992 days ago
It seems that you try to use selenium 2, or webdriver, in order to run your unit tests. Selenium is for browser test, and by its nature it can not run in milliseconds. Its execution time is in seconds. Even when use phantomjs webdriver. It is integration testing approach because it combines execution of several javascript modules. That run in real browser. Selenium has its purpose, but fast test execution is not one of them.
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EdwardDiego 3992 days ago
> It seems that you try to use selenium 2, or webdriver, in order to run your unit tests.

Nope. Integration tests. But integration tests that start a Firefox instance from scratch and have to be rerun multiple times to pass due to non-determinism are slow.

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karlosmid 3991 days ago
Could you please provide one example of non-determinism? I would like to understand what exactly do YOU mean by that term.
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