Common Issues and Pitfalls

Test automation, with all its benefits, helps engineering teams save time, effort, and resources. It takes highly collaborative and skilled engineers to get test automation working at a large scale. Even high-performing teams tend to go through multiple iterations before settling on a stable framework. Teams typically encounter a wide variety of issues when it comes to test automation, and each team’s journey is unique. In this chapter, I have tried to compile a list of teachings to guide you through this process and help minimize any hurdles in your test automation undertaking. The main topics we will be covering in this chapter are the following:

• Recurrent issues in test automation
• Test automation anti-patterns