Introducing Anand Bagmar
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Lists five common anti-patterns in functional automation with concrete examples of what the team built, why fragile locators and test data shortcuts doubled flakiness, and which refactor reduced runtime failures by half in one case. Describes tool choices including Selenium and simple wrappers used, shows the incremental rebuild of a flaky suite while releases continued, and offers specific replacements for brittle hooks and hardcoded waits framed by the metaphor Changing Tyres in a Moving Car.
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