Robust test automation using contextual clues
Rahulkrishna Yandrapally, Suresh Thummalapenta, Saurabh Kumar Sinha, Satish Chandra · 2014
Despite the seemingly obvious advantage of test automation, significant skepticism exists in the industry regarding its cost-benefit tradeoffs. Test scripts for web applications are fragile: even small changes in the page layout can break a number of tests, requiring the expense of re-automating them. Moreover, a test script created for one browser cannot be relied upon to run on a different web browser: it requires duplicate effort to create and maintain versions of tests for a variety of browsers. Because of these hidden costs, organizations often fall back to manual testing.