The importance of metrics

These methods report how much time they take to execute. ClickAdv() also reports a warning if the time taken to build the page was longer than the default timeout of the framework. With this, we can begin to get insights into how much our changes impact the application responsiveness over time, as well as how much the framework itself affects the speed of execution.

For example, using a baseline execution time for a given test, we can see whether framework enhancements are impacting total time positively, or inadvertently slowing down execution. A good page stabilization method will often continue execution sooner than a hardcoded wait. Tracking to total amount of time added by Pause() methods are added to the total execution time.