This file contains a history of smoke test failures which could be avoided if particular techniques were used in the test (e.g. binding test elements with HTML5 `data-*` attribute).
To better understand what can be employed in smoke test to ensure its stability, it is important to understand patterns that led to smoke test breakage. This markdown is a result of work on [this issue](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27906).
# Log
1. This following change led to the smoke test failure because DOM element's attribute `a[title]` was changed: