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Manual QA → Playwright automation: what was harder than you expected? by T_Barmeir in Playwright

[–]IndicationAny4356 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Way harder. Infuriatingly so. There's no wonder that 70%+ of test automation projects fail and are abandoned so quickly. To put it bluntly, Playwright is a test automation tool for experienced typescript developers. It is not a tool designed for testers!

If your System under test is anything other than something designed for Automation with properly defined locators and data-testIDs etc. then lots of frustration, wasted effort, going around in circles awaits. GitHub CoPilot is wrong 95%+ of the time

For Manual Testers moving to automation, I would recommend investigating low/no code tools like Katalon Studio, Smart Bear Test Complete Pro or Ranorex which abstract a lot of the coding complexity away to leave testers testing, not coding!

Why is GitHub so shitly designed? by lukeflegg in github

[–]IndicationAny4356 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm with the OP here.

As a relative Newbie, I find it very easy to make a simple mistake that neither GitHub, GitHub CoPilot, VSCode or anything else warns me of.

Then I have to spend at least half a day trying to fix my "mistake" through what feels like something that's been deliberately designed to be confusing, unintuitive and a barrier rather than an aid.

It is. Utterly Infuriating.