End-to-End Testing: How to Stop the Maintenance Trap - Lilia Gargouri

Forty percent of automation time lost to flakiness and maintenance: that is the reality Lilia Gargouri describes. I talked with Lilia about end-to-end test automation at scale, and what struck me most was how far back the real solutions reach: a single HTML attribute added in 2017 still pays dividends today, simply because the team decided to use it consistently and never change it. We get into the full picture, from how to accurately identify every UI element without XPath gymnastics, to why fifteen well-chosen test cases can outperform five hundred noisy ones, to naming conventions and layered library architecture that keep maintenance from spiraling. And for anyone sitting on an old, flaky test suite right now, Lilia has a concrete answer for where to start.