Automation considerations
The idea of taking a manual task and creating an automation script, no matter the automation tool, requires some base framework decisions to be made. This is to keep consistency within your code and allow the easy adoption of your code by someone else. Have you ever tried using scripts created by someone else and they had no code standards? It is confusing, and you waste time attempting to understand their approach.
In our case, we are going to make some framework decisions ahead of time and keep that consistency. My biggest disclaimer before we get started reviewing the considerations in order to set our framework decisions is:
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