Selenium Testing Framework Risk Assessment & Management 4

Question 1

Which risk does implementing a retry mechanism for flaky Selenium tests help manage?

Accepted Answer

Transient environmental failure risk masking real bugs

Answer

Retries handle transient network or timing glitches but must be carefully limited so they do not hide genuine defects by masking consistent failures.

Question 2

A Selenium test suite has no screenshots or video capture on failure. What risk does this create?

Accepted Answer

Difficult root-cause analysis, increasing mean time to diagnose failures

Answer

Without visual artifacts on failure, developers must reproduce the environment manually, dramatically increasing diagnosis time and effort.

Question 3

Which risk is introduced by not versioning or tagging your Selenium test suite alongside application releases?

Accepted Answer

Test suites may be run against incompatible application versions, causing false failures

Answer

Unversioned test suites can be executed against application builds they were not designed for, producing misleading failure reports.

Question 4

What is the primary risk when Selenium test data is not isolated between test runs?

Accepted Answer

Data left over from previous runs can cause cascading failures in subsequent tests

Answer

Non-isolated test data allows dirty state from one run to interfere with assertions in later runs, making test results unreliable.

Question 5

Which risk does a Selenium test suite face when the application under test uses heavy client-side rendering frameworks like React or Angular?

Accepted Answer

Elements may not be in the DOM when the test tries to interact with them

Answer

SPAs render content asynchronously, so elements may not exist or be interactive when Selenium queries the DOM, requiring robust explicit waits.

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