That depends on whether the combination of those two tests can result in different outcomes when combined or executed in slightly different ways. You want to co

That depends on whether the combination of those two tests can result in different outcomes when combined or executed in slightly different ways. You want to cover as many permutations as possible in your test automation because test automation is intended to be faster than human testing and cover repetition that humans are bad at. To increase performance I use websockets for everything. The Google answer for maximum network speed is gRPC with protobuf. That is supposedly 10x faster than JSON over HTTP, but protobuf is a pain in the ass. The way I execute websockets is 8x faster than HTTP and more convenient. Since I am not dealing with binary transform to protobuf my websocket approach with JSON serialization might actually be faster than (or at least as fast as) the Google solution.