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E2E Test Design Anti-Pattern: “The full test script passes, but certain individual tests in it fail”

Understanding and Avoiding Individual Inter-Test Dependency Failures in Automated E2E test scripts

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In this E2E Test Design Anti-Pattern series:

• “Test script fails after the first successful run”
• “Each test case, in one test script file, passed on its own but failed when run together”
• “The full test script passes, but certain individual tests in it fail”

This article is based on my father’s new book End-to-End Test Automation Anti-Patterns, but presents simpler (and alternative) examples.

Announcing new book, “End-to-end Test Automation Anti-Patterns”

For the earlier E2E Test Design Anti-Pattern, “Each test case in one script passes individually but fails when run together,” the opposite scenario can also occur. In fact, it’s often a more common anti-pattern among junior-level test automation engineers — “junior” here referring to technical proficiency, not job title or…