Avoid these anti patterns

Assertions in page objects 📃

• Asserts should be tests responsibility

  Only a single assert that verifies page/elements are loaded properly ✅

Webdriver methods in tests/page objects

If you have WebDriver APIs in your test methods, You're Doing It Wrong. -- Simon Stewart.

• Follow DRY (Don't repeat yourself) ⚔️ 🔁
• Put common wrappers in a BasePage class

Long E2E tests with multiple actions and assertions

• Debugging nightmare 😱
• Might cause bugs to be discovered later if earlier steps fails

Writing too much UI automation

💡 Less is more

• DO NOT test everything from the app
• Write tests for more visual aspects
• Prefer to write Functional API tests or Integration/Unit tests instead

Replace exploratory testing

• Automated tests can automate checks and be good change detectors
• Exploratory testing with automation is 💯% valuable