Why is gmail so difficult to test?

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Why is gmail so difficult to test?

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Why is gmail so difficult to test?

In terms of sophistication of use of AJAX fundamentals, Google's gmail system ranks at the top of the list of sophistication -- and difficulty of testing.

In gmail everything is dynamic. Even the ID tags are assigned different values each time you run, so simple things like using adaptive playback will fail because the needed pivot point -- a fixed ID tag -- isn't there. And so forth.

We have found that using eValid's structure testing approach works well with gmail...it is a bit more work to set up tests but once set up they are very durable.

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