Unreliable Click-Success Detection in Generic Web Test Automation
Builders of no-code Selenium-based test runners cannot reliably confirm that a click actually affected the target web application, since apps may attach event handlers asynchronously and a successful click() call only means the event fired, not that it was handled. This causes false test failures and makes generic, app-agnostic retry logic risky to implement without duplicating actions.
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