Hardcoded Environment Configuration
^^^^^
**Definition:**

* Imagine same checks must be run against both Firefox and Chrome; or against local and then pre-production test environments. No way to do it if you hardcoded references to browser type, server host or databases.


**References:**

.. admonition:: Quality attributes

    * :octicon:`file-code;1em` -  Code Example
    * :octicon:`comment-discussion;1em` -  Cause and Effect
    * :octicon:`graph;1em` -  Frequency
    * :octicon:`sync;1em` -  Refactoring

* `Anti-patterns in test automation <https://www.codementor.io/@mgawinecki/anti-patterns-in-test-automation-101c6vm5jz>`_ :octicon:`sync;1em`