How I Made Our Test Suite 43% Faster by Deleting One Configuration

An enterprise Selenium + Selenide automation framework had been silently paying a performance tax for years because Selenium’s global implicit wait conflicted with Selenide’s explicit waiting. The issue surfaced as fixed 10-second pauses during invisibility checks. After measuring step timings, removing the implicit wait, and refactoring synchronization, suite execution improved by 9–43% depending on wait density.