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  1. Documentation
  2. Test Practices
  3. Discouraged
  4. v4.0

Discouraged behaviors

Things to avoid when automating browsers with Selenium.

Captchas

File downloads

HTTP response codes

Gmail, email and Facebook logins

Test dependency

Performance testing

Link spidering

Two Factor Authentication

Last modified December 7, 2021: reorganize documentation and update titles (#861) [deploy site] (872174bfdd8)

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