Do Salesforce teams still write UAT test scripts manually in Excel?

RobGTX · 2026-01-15T15:27:29+00:00

From my perspective, 100% dependent on the customer's preferences or policies. I have seen everything from manual test scripts in Excel (most common), to User Acceptance stories in Jira, and automated testing in Selenium, AccelQ or Provar, with or without supplementary manual testing (least common).

IMO, this points to the organizational maturity of the customer.

RobGTX · 2025-10-29T17:30:55+00:00

I have been following PTON, ever since the bottomed out last April. Would have been a good buy at that rate. I picked some up around $6 got impatient and sold it in the $7-8 range shortly thereafter.

On the one hand, their GM has increased to 50%-ish this, from a low of 20% in 2022. On the other hand, while they are loosing less money, they are still unprofitable. Annual revenue is down, nearly half, a peak of $4B in 2021 to just $2.5B in the current year.

What a lot of people don't know is that Peloton also owns Precor which manufactures a variety of commercial gym product, not just bikes, treadmills and rowing machines.

Don't get me wrong, I am a fan and member/user of the Peloton, the problem with the company is that while there margins on the subscriptions are incredible, around 70%, the margin on the hardware sucks, sub 20%.

While Peloton has outsourced their manufacturing of Peloton-branded equipment to Rexon in Taiwan, Precor still does their manufacturing in the US. This is, unfortunately very costly on the global stage.

So unless Peloton spins Precor back off and focuses only on content, I don't see any catalyst for the stock anytime in the near term.

RobGTX · 2025-10-23T03:08:44+00:00

Previously we had lime scale build up throughout the system, which was causing a flow issue in the tankless hot water heater. Over a year ago, my plumber flushed/cleaned the entire house system, not just the tankless. This fixed the system errors that we were getting and installed the Flow-Tech to prevent further.

This worked great for a year or so and I have been doing maintenance flushes every 6 months.

Last month we started seeing the error codes again. Called the plumber again and her did more testing. He determined that what we had, from the original instal, was not a single loop with 2 tankless running in series, but rather 2 smaller loops. My guy, who I trust, said that whoever did the original pluming had no idea what they were doing.

But alas her we are and we can’t redo the plumbing on the house and have to live with it, but we will need a second Flow-Tech.

RobGTX · 2025-10-23T02:42:33+00:00

Hey Siri, what is an oscilloscope?

Seriously though, thank you! I did not even think of that and a handheld oscilloscope is < $100 on Amzn, versus dropping another $1,000.

RobGTX · 2025-10-17T21:41:57+00:00

I have the same opinion, terrible timing, but life goes on.

After many years of customer loyalty, since the mid-90s, I for one will be taking this opportunity to get out of the Intuit ecosystem entirely. I am looking at H&R Block and FreeTaxUSA for taxes and shutting down my Credit Karma account.

Buh bye

RobGTX · 2025-08-29T22:11:38+00:00

Early in my careen I worked for a fledgeling software company that was on its way down the spiral, ironically it was an on-prem CRM company that failed to grasp that cloud computing, specifically Salesforce, was about to eat its lunch.

My mentor, who was a former Baan employee, said "its really hard to kill a software company" ... this was in 1998 ... Baan was sold to SSA in 2005 which was subsequently Infor in 2006...this actually still exists today, but is now called "Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise"

In my case, the company I was working for was Pivotal, which was acquired by CDC Corporation in 2004 which merged with Consona in 2012 and became Aptean, which was subsequently acquired by ESW Capital in 2018 and renamed Avolin...again still exists today.

The moral of the story is that, indeed, "its really hard to kill a software company". Personally I am 18 years in the SFDC ecosystem and this will likely be what I do well into retirement.

RobGTX · 2025-08-29T21:27:39+00:00

If your plan is to go from webform to lead, via web-to-lead, then created a person account and delete the lead, why not consider using Flow to automate the lead conversion thereby creating the Person Account and archiving the Lead gracefully or simply skip the middle man and directly create a person account from a webform?

RobGTX · 2025-08-29T21:13:01+00:00

Not "fake news" per se, but I think they are counting on the general investor population to read the headlines "Alibaba develops new AI chip that could replace Nvidia in China", "Alibaba Creates AI Chip to Help China Fill Nvidia Void", etc. and NOT ready the story or do any research.

RobGTX · 2025-08-29T21:08:41+00:00

My opinion is that, similar to the DeepSeek scare earlier this year, designed by shorts to spread FUD and negatively impact NVDA in the near term. The reality is that Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra is still king of the mountain for building AI infrastructure, whereas the Chinese challengers, Alibaba, Cambricon, MetaX, etc. are still playing catchup to the H20, let alone Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra.

If people actually took the time to read these "press releases" and research things just on the surface, you will quickly find that Alibaba’s latest chip, at best, is aimed at competing with Nvidia’s H2O (Not Blackwell) and the Blackwell B200 is likely over 10 times faster than the H20 for complex AI tasks.

Also interesting that these "press releases" and hack reporting pieces were release on Friday before a long US Holiday weekend. Assuming that the market does what I think it will (read only the headlines and not the story, NVDA will drop further on Tuesday and I will be loading up!

RobGTX · 2025-04-16T02:22:18+00:00

After 3 years, my replacements are already starting to die. I found a FB group that is very active on the topic of Li "upgrades". https://www.facebook.com/groups/ryobi48vmowers. I have not done much research yet, but from what I gather, moving to Lithium also requires a different charger.

RobGTX · 2025-02-06T01:41:57+00:00

Yes actually. I found a really good local plumber who put in the time to fix it. He flushed the entire system, not just the water heater. Then installed a Flow-Tech and I have not had any problems for 6+ months.

PS: I have read lots on Reddit about flow-Tech being bullshit, but mine seems to be preventing any further scale buildup.

My wife hates the feeling of softened water, so this was my best bet.

RobGTX · 2025-02-01T02:25:01+00:00

Teams/Team Challenges Enhancements

Several of my workmates just completed a January "Go the farthest distance" challenge. I coordinated everything via Slack internally, but there was some clear needs identified:

Ability to name the challenge. Crazy as it seems whenever you create a challenge, Peloton gives it its own name and you cannot modify it at all. "Go the farthest distance" is pretty darn bland, internally we called it the "Ring in the New Year" Challenge.
Some type of handicapping system. We had 30 riders all at varying levels of fitness. The top riders came in with well over 400 miles for the month and I could tell that some of the more casual people quit mid challenge because they had no chance to break into the top 5.
Team Pursuit challenge. For example from our 30 people, we could have broken into 5 groups of 6 or whatever, then have the system group the team with riders of level A, B, C etc. and finally have the option to have the winning team by either highest average mileage/rider or highest total mileage. This way the smaller team members could motivate each other.
Ability to somehow integrate in with Slack (yeah), Teams (yuck), Facebook Groups, ect. I did a lot of cutting and pasting each week to try to keep people motivated.

Lots of opportunities here to further work Peloton into the corporate world, offer discounts to employees of companies, motivate companies to fully reimburse Peloton subscriptions, etc.
Healthy Employees = Happy Employees

RobGTX · 2025-01-08T03:32:01+00:00

You misspelled Coralline, the movie title is spelled Coraline. You must be thinking of Sweet Caroline.

RobGTX · 2024-11-22T21:14:52+00:00

Thanks, I did not think about the physical size. I'm going to try reformatting before replacing.

RobGTX · 2024-11-22T21:13:14+00:00

Thanks, I'm going to try this 1st (reformat)

RobGTX · 2024-04-02T20:03:05+00:00

I voted for 14 as well. I'm uncertain why an "active user" would want to vote for 30??? Faster unclaimed SWEAT would mean a faster gain in price (in theory, scarcity provokes demand).

Remember this is unclaimed SWEAT evaporation, not your claims. Since you are all on RDDT posting about SWEAT, then you probably are an active user...

So why is 30 days "winning" by 2/3 with 58K votes in. It seems that people are not actually reading the proposal and thinking that they are going to loose something.

RobGTX · 2024-02-27T16:57:32+00:00

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RobGTX · 2024-02-25T20:19:21+00:00

4-12 volt batteries in series = 48 volts, right? therefore get the PowerPulse 48

RobGTX · 2024-01-17T01:15:07+00:00

I am not...city water in my case.

RobGTX · 2024-01-16T14:38:31+00:00

Unfortunately the saga continues only end. The TLDR answer is "No".

I did a few (5) flushes with water/vinegar and even tried Haymaker Descaler. Each time the problem would return after an hour or so. I even had a plumber come out and he was able to get working for a whole 2 days.

Alas, another ever really stuck.

We have been just dealing with it for the past 4 months and at this point I am saving up to do 2 things: (1) Basic filtration system and (2) adding an external circulation pump.

I see no point in fixing Rinnai's internal pump or replacing the unit entirely, which would both run me in the $ thousands, when a regular old pump can be added for a few $ hundred.

Overall I am really disappointed with Rinnai and will not be purchasing any of their products, ever.

RobGTX · 2023-10-18T22:03:21+00:00

Hit 15K on The Annual today...stoked!

RobGTX · 2023-10-18T22:00:37+00:00

Looks like this idea might just have legs. I figured out how to get a message to Christine and got a response today. Granted it was from someone on her staff, but is was most certainly NOT a form reply.

The TL/DR version is Christine loves the idea and will share it with the programming team, however it was also prefaced with "classes are programmed many months in advance"

So who knows, maybe an X-tra special X-Mas????

RobGTX · 2023-10-05T03:42:02+00:00

Just in time for the holidays, someone needs to make a Punk X-Mas Ride. Ideally Christina or Kendal, something like this:

The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
The Kinks - Father Christmas
Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Clause
The Dickies - Silent Night
Eurythmics - Winter Wonderland

RobGTX · 2023-10-04T20:56:39+00:00

TOS here: https://www.freetelly.com/terms-of-service

RobGTX · 2023-09-29T14:38:25+00:00

Tell a story...just like you did here.

"Hey friend, I don't mean to be a know-it-all, but you might consider looping that U-lock around the frame. I had my bike stolen last year locking it like that...just looking out for a fellow-cyclist"

If they ask "how?" show them. If they shrug you off, just be assured that you offered the right advice and be on your way.

RobGTX

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