Selenium Automation Smells

What is a code smell?

A code smell is any characteristic in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem.

Determining what is and is not a code smell is subjective, and varies by language, developer, and development methodology.

Examples of code smells:

• Long Method

• Large Class

• Primitive Obsession

• Long Parameter List

• Comments

• Duplicate Code

• Dead Code

• Temporary Field

• Switch Statements

• Feature Envy

• Inappropriate Intimacy

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What is an automation smell?

An automation smell is any characteristic in the automation project that possibly indicates a deeper problem.

There are different types of automation smells:

- code smells

- page object model smells

- unit testing smells

- locator smells

- retry smells

- synchronization smells