Sleeping is not your best friend in automation

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Asserts that fixed sleeps cause flakiness and slow tests and advocates replacing them with Selenium WebDriver waits: standard expected conditions, fluent waits, and custom conditions (examples: wait until element is clickable, waiting for text or attribute changes, checking invisibility of a modal). Shares concrete fixes: removed a 1s sleep by waiting for an expanded class on SVG bars, built Appium tests for apps, handled xterm.js terminal output via screenshot+OCR with 99% OCR success.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:11Pineapple
3. 5:09What does the Selenium community Say?
4. 7:16Unreliable
5. 20:08Open a card [program] Card slides down
6. 27:41The Terminal Sleep-Fest
7. 29:50Inspect = Simple Solution

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