It’s not easy to get UI automation right
And here’s the reason why:
The AUT GUI will keep on changing, the browsers / mobile OS get updated every few months and the automation tool also keep upgrading
The automation framework needs to be loosely coupled to adapt to all these rapid changes
It ends up like a person trying to balance himself on three moving wooden planks at sea which keep on drifting..
Another analogy I remember is from car CD players problem
Even when a car is running smoothly, there are subtle vibrations, enough to disrupt the lens reading data off the CD
The industry started to engineer car CD players to be flexible enough to cater for these jitters and even bigger ones to avoid the disruption in reading data
So keep your automation framework fluid, easy / quick to update, and robust enough to overcome any small bumps and tides which are inevitable
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