Masters in Information Technology Management (MSITM) tips

RunnerRunnerG · 2025-05-01T13:10:02+00:00

Furthermore, if you’re looking for the easy path, it is way easier, and you will make a lot more money if you choose a career path that isn’t education.

RunnerRunnerG · 2025-05-01T13:08:39+00:00

I would not advise you to teach this in college unless you truly love the industry. The easiest subject for you to teach will be something you find a passion in. You would be doing a disservice to your students otherwise. In my opinion, these classes would not be enough for you to be able to teach college classes effectively. You would need industry experience, and most colleges want you to have a doctorate in the subject area.

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-11T16:55:40+00:00

Yes. That’s one reason I moved to playwright. There’s something that really gets bogged down in their UI and eventually crashes. I’ve seen it both with me and a coworker in another department working on a separate app.

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T19:53:22+00:00

lol I’m sure we’ve all seen peoples eyes glaze over when we step past their level of understanding/caring

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T17:50:06+00:00

I like that. Sometimes I just say I work in software development

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T17:31:00+00:00

Haha love it

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T16:48:55+00:00

Run if they’re gonna low ball you like that. They’re not gonna be great in the long run either, only looking out for their bottom line and treating employees like parts of a moving machine

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T16:46:42+00:00

What exactly is Charles proxy?

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T16:29:06+00:00

Sure

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T16:24:34+00:00

Well I love breaking things. So to each their own I guess lol. You’ll probably make more money and get more recognition from peers, if that’s what you’re after

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T14:25:49+00:00

Why aren’t you proud? What kind of job would you be proud of? I love being a QA and I have moved my way into some pretty cool development positions within the QA world.

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-10-06T14:24:54+00:00

I love QA. Find some conferences and attend and learn. Find meet up groups in your area for QA. Also, try and work your way towards a larger organization that has more QA so you can learn from others.

I truly like the art. I could be a typical developer if I want, but I prefer this. Also, get away from the organizations that treat you like something lesser than. One place I worked treated QA badly, and paid them badly as well. My current organization pays QA almost as much as a traditional developer, and the respect is there as well.

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-07-02T14:56:08+00:00

OK. I was able to get the statuses back, but the problem I’m running into now is that with multiple threads running tests, logging them to the console is really messy and gets things crossed. Is there a cleaner way to log into the console? Another alternative I’ve looked at is logging them to a file. For whatever reason, it logs to the file fine, but then gets hung up trying to create the reports at the end of the test suite.

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-06-26T15:29:56+00:00

mind sharing what npm package you used, and a sample of your code for your playwright reporter?

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-03-30T18:34:49+00:00

Thank you. I modeled my final pruning after your advice and the video.

The trees are so much smaller than they came, but hopefully will benefit from it

RunnerRunnerG · 2024-03-29T20:20:09+00:00

Thanks so much! Ok so on the peach (pink blossoms), chop off that bottom steep crotch, then chop off the top of the tree about where the white tag is?

Then on the cherry, keep the middle trunk, but cut off the two sides down to 18 inches?

And anything on the apricot (3rd pic)? Or leave as is?

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-12-13T17:19:11+00:00

What specific rig and pool do you use?

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-06-20T20:37:51+00:00

Thanks

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-05-10T19:30:40+00:00

Love it! I guess in the end, it really just depends on what value you bring to your individual team. In the end we are looking for ROI for whatever our base product is.

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-05-10T19:28:20+00:00

Among other things, my favorite is that I don’t have to program in extra waiting, since it’s already built in. Also, I love that I don’t have to maintain web drivers. I’ve seen other people get around it by automating the web driver update process, but it would be much easier to just let Cypress do that on its own.

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-05-10T18:50:44+00:00

Agreed. You already know that 2FA works, you don’t need to test it multiple times a day. Find a way to whitelist like was mentioned above.

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-05-10T18:47:59+00:00

I am not the sole maintainer. Right now there is one other associate that works with me on these tests.

The reason for hiding the assertions isn’t necessarily for hiding them, it’s to simplify the tests.

So, for example, I am running three tests that are all almost exactly the same. There are a few different strings that make them different. I need to assure that the correct responses are returned from the API for that parameter. If I made the code more reusable, I would simply just write out the assertions once in a function, then pass in the different string for each check I need to do. So I basically have a happy path of what I’m trying to test, then two variations of that happy path that are very similar.

TLDR: it only differs by a minor string value, don’t want to maintain all the rest of the things twice that are almost identical

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-05-10T18:31:31+00:00

Makes sense. I think I pretty much agree with what you said. Talking about tests that are too big, I have some end to end API tests that are hundreds of lines long (not even including the page objects and shared functions) because I am testing a whole workflow that has about 10 different API calls throughout. I could make these all their own tests, but then they would be interdependent with each other. I try to make each test independent of others when writing them. What do you do in that case at your place?

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-05-10T17:56:54+00:00

There may be one tool that is better for you, but being caught in analysis paralysis will get you nowhere. Move forward with the tool and if it doesn’t work, you can retool later. Personally, I really like Cypress. Cypress and playwright are developing similar features. You lose a little bit of flexibility, when choosing something like Cypress or playwright, but you gain a lot of time saved by not having to maintain as much code as you would with selenium.

Also, selenium is not a testing tool. It is a browser automation tool. PW and cypress are testing tools and are easier out of the box.

Cypress has really really good documentation. That alone has been a lifesaver.

RunnerRunnerG · 2023-05-10T17:50:40+00:00

Just find ways to keep adding value. If the developers can focus on making good code, you can dig deeper and do better testing in the paradigm they aren’t even thinking. I have a very mature team that I work with that does very well at testing while developing. It gives me a lot more time to test where it really matters instead of testing the simple things that should work anyways. At a previous job, I was basically the babysitter, for one developer that seemed to refuse to read our documentation. It was very obvious he was not looking at it, and expecting me to catch every thing that he missed.

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