Selenium WebDriver Risk Assessment & Management 2

Question 1

A Selenium test suite takes 4 hours to run but the CI pipeline must complete in 1 hour. Which risk mitigation strategy is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Parallelize tests across multiple browser instances

Answer

Parallelizing tests across multiple browser instances reduces total execution time without sacrificing test coverage.

Question 2

Which scenario represents the highest risk when using implicit waits in Selenium WebDriver?

Accepted Answer

Tests pass on fast machines but fail on slow CI servers

Answer

Implicit waits set a global timeout that may be sufficient locally but inadequate on slower CI infrastructure, causing environment-dependent failures.

Question 3

A risk register for a Selenium automation project should include which of the following for each identified risk?

Accepted Answer

Risk description, probability, impact, and mitigation plan

Answer

A complete risk register entry captures the risk description, its likelihood, potential impact, and the planned mitigation to enable prioritization.

Question 4

Your Selenium tests rely on a third-party payment gateway sandbox that has 99% uptime. What is the recommended risk mitigation?

Accepted Answer

Mock the payment gateway for automated tests

Answer

Mocking the third-party dependency eliminates external uptime risk while preserving test coverage of the application logic.

Question 5

Which ChromeDriver version management risk is most commonly encountered in Selenium projects?

Accepted Answer

ChromeDriver version mismatch with installed Chrome browser

Answer

Chrome auto-updates frequently, and a mismatch between the Chrome browser version and ChromeDriver version causes SessionNotCreatedException errors.

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