You have written your first Selenium test suite, watched it pass locally, and felt the satisfaction of automation success. Then you pushed it to CI. The next morning, half your tests failed for reasons that made no sense. Welcome to the real world of Selenium test automation.
Selenium remains one of the most widely adopted web automation frameworks for good reason. It offers unmatched flexibility, supports multiple programming languages, and benefits from a massive community that has been refining best practices for nearly two decades. But adopting Selenium is just the beginning. The real challenge starts when you scale beyond a handful of test cases and discover that writing tests is the easy part. Keeping them running reliably is where teams struggle.