Effective Automated tests

This page lists couple of post on writing better automation code. You may find it useful and apply it when writing automated tests -

• How to Avoid Null Pointer Exception 

• Retrieve only first and last elements from webElements collection

• Do you need BDD style of system test?

• How to get rid of duplicate element locators

• Introducing Navigation API for automated testing 

• How "should" you name your test method?

• Where is my Defect-ID ? 

• Where is my Test Data ?

• Should Selenium tests be always independent?

• What else should page object check?

• Are you selenium element locators static?

• Actions and Operations APIs

• When page returns more than one type of page object 

• Is page object returning page object a bad practice

• Test Automation Project Structure

• File upload and WebDriver (Where is my File?)

• Do you check for absence of element on a page 
  

• How do you instantiate driver?