That's surely a good solution. It requires write access to the source code of the web application being automated though. That's not to say that Helium is a si

That's surely a good solution. It requires write access to the source code of the web application being automated though. That's not to say that Helium is a silver bullet. It certainly always depends on the context. For instance, I know of a bank here in Austria that generates a lot of the Java source code for their internet banking app from an abstract model. They also generate page object code immediately from this abstract model, which is therefore always up to date and precise. This is one example where I would say using Helium would probably not pay off.