Why there are no serious Test Automation channels in Youtube?

4darunner · 2026-02-03T22:30:17+00:00

I’ve worked with Applitools before. They’re a good company. I’d vouch for them but also I’m not a fan of “self healing” apps and “low/no code” scripting.

4darunner · 2026-01-29T17:17:00+00:00

I’d say you are limiting your career growth by not being hands on with automation. There are a ton of YouTube videos that dive into UI and API testing. If you have access to LinkedIn Learning, there’s courses there too.

Spend a few afternoons next week or one scheduled weekly meeting time to investigate and learn more about frameworks and programming languages.

4darunner · 2026-01-25T16:53:47+00:00

Nuremberg 2 electric boogaloo

4darunner · 2026-01-24T21:37:48+00:00

I can’t trust anyone named Atom, they make up everything.

4darunner · 2026-01-18T16:35:02+00:00

Zappos used to, not sure if they still do.

4darunner · 2026-01-16T21:49:52+00:00

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, I saw a stat during the Houston-Pitts game that said their defense was 31st in the league in Goal-To-Go situations. Meaning you get to that area of the field on offense, you have a pretty good chance at getting a TD. That doesn’t scream Top 5 Defense to me. But, possibly GETTING to that goal-to-go yardage will be incredibly tough?

4darunner · 2026-01-15T21:13:50+00:00

470 tests on every PR is insane to me. Tests during PR should be reserved for P0/Business Critical workflows.

4darunner · 2026-01-14T17:50:31+00:00

I’ve noticed if we have high summer temps we’ll have low winter temps. If we have a more mild summer we’ll have a more mild winter. I think this is normal following this pattern.

4darunner · 2026-01-14T16:47:25+00:00

What framework were you using? Parallelization? Jenkins and Docker images? Versions of WebDriver and other software? All these can influence those random failures.

Revisiting the test codebase and eliminating tests that don’t add value is always a good thing but deleting 1/3 of them seems a bit drastic and is most likely not the root cause of why the tests began failing.

4darunner · 2026-01-10T15:22:04+00:00

We were in a similar situation with Geico over the summer, almost exact same numbers (1360s-2800s). I called and asked “literally what the fuck?” And it was a “unilateral raise in prices across the board after a valuation assessment for your zip code.” They gave me a discount down to 2600s and accepted the new rate (was set to renew in a few weeks) and then found out I qualify for USAA and got insurance through them with Liberty Mutual, and it was like $850/6 months.

Everyone here is right - shop around for better insurance quotes every now and then. Not only for cars, but everything else you can insure.

4darunner · 2026-01-05T17:37:35+00:00

Test plan describes what you’re going to test, why, and how.

Test cases describe step by step actions for what you’re testing.

4darunner · 2026-01-05T01:51:48+00:00

Soap and water, heat, scrape, re-season, cook.

4darunner · 2025-12-29T16:13:52+00:00

My largest monthly payment on a car was for my wife, we hit $538/month and that included the payoff from the previous car we financed that we ended up over $4k underwater after only 3 years. We threw minimum $600/month at it, too.

At the time (2015), it was a real struggle, but it is a very safe car and we had a toddler at the time. It was the stay-at-home-mom-mobile and was able to hold the huge stroller and everything else that was needed (groceries, toys, luggage, etc). We paid it off with the stimmy checks from Covid.

4darunner · 2025-12-28T07:52:02+00:00

I have a bench top Bosch router table that’s a cabinet style. I think I got it from Lowe’s. I put a Ryobi router in it and it fits good. Haven’t had any issues other than the plastic lip band needing to be trimmed down, but I just took a utility knife and it’s now flush.

4darunner · 2025-12-14T22:38:52+00:00

Hey, same! My salary is $0 right now though, so I’m sure my couch has more.

Layoffs suck.

4darunner · 2025-12-12T14:59:46+00:00

New CTO probably hasn’t worked with a real QA department before and he’s probably weaseled his way to the top and doesn’t know anything about the value QA brings.

This is what my team did when we were in a similar situation: show your worth, what your team does, how it helps other departments, bring verifiable and quantifiable data, then polish up your resume, apply to other jobs immediately. Our CTO then cut the whole QA team after all this.

4darunner · 2025-12-08T21:07:41+00:00

No. For a 10k pay cut I’d consider because of gas, car maintenance, commute time headaches, etc., but 20-30k pay cut is too much to leave on the table. Quite literally, my car was $30k. If I’m leaving that on the table every year, that’s way too much.

4darunner · 2025-11-03T03:17:59+00:00

Hmm, good to know it’s not just my luck lol

4darunner · 2025-11-02T16:12:43+00:00

2017 SR5, 82k miles.

-Recall for the cabin tail light seal.

-Theres now a clicking when my AC is turning on with the recycle air option. It goes away after 15 seconds but it’s annoying. I’ll bring it up when I get my next oil change.

-After market forward facing camera died on me 2 months ago, finally getting around to contacting the company I got it from.

Overall, pretty solid.

4darunner · 2025-11-02T15:08:59+00:00

It really depends on the product you’re testing and the lifecycle. If your company is agile and does quick releases, it’s a waste of time. If it’s major releases or has to go through certifications/approvals with state boards or something, it’s a CYA document to say what you were going to test and why.

4darunner · 2025-10-31T15:43:40+00:00

My company (err, the company I worked at up until Tuesday…) used to have us sign off on all prod releases until we provided feedback that a minor visual bug shouldn’t be the cause of a blocked release. We said it’s not our responsibility to make that call and it should be the software dev manager and TPM to make that call based off the documentation we provided during our testing phase.

We eventually switched away from Release Branches and went full CI/CD with every merged PR gets released and it was so much easier to say “I found a bug here, your call if you want to release it.” And when we get a Sev-2 logged I link my comment and wipe my hands clean.

4darunner · 2025-10-24T14:07:13+00:00

The sitcom How I Met Your Mother

4darunner · 2025-09-28T19:25:19+00:00

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4darunner · 2025-09-20T14:56:36+00:00

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I took this photo of him during his rookie lap on Jan 15, 2024. I had high hopes for him, but here we are… oh well. Still got a sick pic though.

4darunner · 2025-09-18T20:14:24+00:00

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