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authorMark Lapierre <mlapierre@gitlab.com>2019-08-29 09:22:58 +0300
committerMark Lapierre <mlapierre@gitlab.com>2019-09-04 02:24:10 +0300
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CE backport of EE MR approvals E2E test
Includes API methods to add members to projects and groups
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@@ -167,6 +167,18 @@ There are two supported methods of defining elements within a view.
Any existing `.qa-selector` class should be considered deprecated
and we should prefer the `data-qa-selector` method of definition.
+### Exceptions
+
+In some cases it might not be possible or worthwhile to add a selector.
+
+Some UI components use external libraries, including some maintained by third parties.
+Even if a library is maintained by GitLab, the selector sanity test only runs
+on code within the GitLab project, so it's not possible to specify the path for
+the view for code in a library.
+
+In such rare cases it's reasonable to use CSS selectors in page object methods,
+with a comment explaining why an `element` can't be added.
+
## Running the test locally
During development, you can run the `qa:selectors` test by running