I tired vim, but I just find debugging so much easier on pycharm
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- We use the webdriver, recording never worked
- Followed the page model
- Had to build in retries on getting elements to make tests reliable
- You need upper management buy-in. Took us 8 months to start getting it right
- I would say our team members are intermediate with python
- Devs currently do not write tests. But they asked to start writing which is a good sign
- Yes some days you just spend fixing broken tests. But you get experience on how to write them better over time
Tips:
- Work with devs to get build the page with proper selectors (use ID if not, then us CSS selectors, don't use xpath)
- Use APIs to seed data for your tests
- Get to the page you need to test as fast as possible by hitting the urls directly, using APIs to seed what data u need. Manually injecting cookies to get to the state you need.
Costs:
- 2 full time engineers only working on automation for 8 months.
- Once you have your framework in place writing tests become a lot easier
It has certainly improved our deployment time.
If you describe some of the your problems. I can tell you how we overcome them.