TL;DR: You run your Selenium suite locally β 47 tests, all green, ship it. The PR hits GitHub Actions and 23 tests fail. π Reading time: ~40 min What's in this article The Problem: Your Tests Pass Locally and Explode in CI The classic failure: green locally, red in CI, nobody knows why Choosing Your Selenium Wrapper (and Why I Use WebdriverIO Over Raw Selenium) Installing and Configuring WebdriverIO Writing Tests That Don't Flake Kill browser.pause() Before It Kills Your Pipeline Setting Up GitHub Actions to Run These Tests The Gotchas I Hit (So You Don't Have To) The Problem: Your Tests Pass Locally and Explode in CI The classic failure: green locally, red in CI, nobody knows why You run your Selenium suite locally β 47 tests, all green, ship it. The PR hits GitHub Actions and 23 tests fail. Half of them are TimeoutException , a few are NoSuchElementException , and one is some cryptic StaleElementReferenceException that you've never seen before.β¦
