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2.4Key Takeaways
- Authenticate via API or saved state — only the login test should exercise the login page
- Page objects should expose behaviors (
loginAs,createReport), not element handles (emailInput,submitButton) - Use a three-layer architecture (test / service / page object) to isolate change impact
- Every minute spent on login in a large test suite is a minute wasted — multiply by hundreds of tests to see the real cost