Currently I am building a web portal using RoR, MySQL, HTML, CSS and jQuery etc., I got a request from my automation test engineer to add ID attributes(if possible NAME attribute also) to all the elements of my application.

I am confused to do this perhaps I am not sure whether it is a good practice or not, so can anybody please help me with specific disadvantages/issues with adding ID attributes to all elements of my application.

Thanks,
Siva

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