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WebDriver; you are probably doing it wrong...
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Selenium, and WebDriver by extension have a bad reputation for being unreliable, unmaintainable and slow. Care to guess whose fault it is? Have a mirror handy? The good news is that we know how to address these problems.

  • Page Objects FTW - 20 minutes
    • Locators
      • dynamic
    • Elements
      • input
      • select
      • checkbox
    • Actions
      • open()
      • wait_until_loaded()
      • validate()
      • success = True
    • 'Rules'
  • Aaagh! Synchronization - 10 minutes
    • and I quote 'Explicit is better than implicit.'
    • latches
  • Proxy All Things! - 5 minutes
    • issue 141
    • '3rd party crap' -- yes, that is a technical term
    • timings
  • Back to the Future - 5 minutes
    • HTML5
    • Canvas
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Also mention this: https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/

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