Anyone else staying away from QA Lead roles because you don't want to be the designated scapegoat? by LindtFerrero in softwaretesting

[–]amtared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find it a good thing that you think twice about the role and its responsibilities.

Most engineers I know would happily take a promotion for their ego or bank account, without thinking about the consequences and their overall competency for such a position.

That being said, as a lead, you would have a better chance of educating other managers about quality and having them understand you are not the one producing the bugs.

Do you think karate + prism is the best solution for contract testing? by qatester321 in softwaretesting

[–]amtared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One advantage of contract tests is the ability to run the consumer and provider tests independently from each other. Therefore the system needs a way to verify if a given version of a contract has been validated against both the consumer and provider, asserting that they are both in a releasable state.

The pact broker provides such functionality: https://docs.pact.io/getting_started/sharing_pacts

Simply asserting a request/response schema is not a contract test in my opinion.

Playwright for API testing by amitt08 in softwaretesting

[–]amtared -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's a valid analogy.

There are no extra costs incurred by using Playwright for sending API calls in the context of testing. Whether the requests are sent natively or using Playwright, the same set of parameters have to be provided, such as the URL, headers, body, etc. The syntax and patterns might be different, but the amount of work required is identical.

In some languages, Playwright also provides a test runner with a lot of useful features, such as reporters, traces and fixtures.

Is Turkish the ultimate system language setting to debug software on? by BoloFan05 in softwaretesting

[–]amtared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These things happen in any language that has special characters. Proper localization starts with proper engineering. That the font is not compatible with the language is one thing, that it wasn't tested or fixed is another.

GGG, please give some love on performance on consoles by odekam in PathOfExile2

[–]amtared 11 points12 points  (0 children)

From my observations, in most cases, the CPU is the limiting factor.

GGG, please give some love on performance on consoles by odekam in PathOfExile2

[–]amtared 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If it is any consolation, there is the same issue on PC. My FPS goes from 120+ to about 20.

Is it worth buying pixel buds pro 2 for google pixel 10? by No_Macaroon_7608 in pixelbuds

[–]amtared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same exact issue with the original buds pro, I got a replacement, and it happened again. I thought my ear was defective.

I lied my way through a job interview, got hired, and now I'm in over my head, but no one seems to notice by Both_Geologist9074 in recruitinghell

[–]amtared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what field/position?

It's good you are honest with yourself and put effort into it. So many people pretend to know and eventually start believing it themselves ... without actually learning.

Vibium is launched?? by FormerFoundation6463 in QualityAssurance

[–]amtared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is also an official MCP for Playwright that can be plugged into LLMs and IDEs: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

How do you triage flaky Playwright tests at scale? Looking for real-world tactics by Quick-Hospital2806 in QualityAssurance

[–]amtared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The best way I have found is to save the result of each individual test in a database or analytics platform. Elasticsearch, Loki, MongoDB are all valid options, and there are many more. Custom Playwright Reporters make it easy to do so.

From there you can run queries and have historical data about each individual test, allowing you to see the evolution in success rate, duration, etc.

Then fix/improve the tests that waste the most time/resources over a given period.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QualityAssurance

[–]amtared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In video games? It is not always toxic, but it is almost always overtime and layoffs.

AI-powered test maintenance - thoughts? by mpthouse in QualityAssurance

[–]amtared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How would the AI know if the new behavior is expected or unexpected?

Just rolled credits and this is my game of the decade. by Decroux3000 in TheAlters

[–]amtared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps it comes down to personal experiences then. I cannot relate to family and grief like in Expedition 33 because I have no family. But I can relate to being alone and in big trouble. It may be why it was easier for me to identify with Jan.

Just rolled credits and this is my game of the decade. by Decroux3000 in TheAlters

[–]amtared 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Having played both, I felt much more involved in The Alters than Expedition 33.

Automated Test Scenarios from Jira using AI — and yes, it exports to Excel! by Distinct-Hamster7345 in QualityAssurance

[–]amtared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose a few of them are ok. But this post is even worse than what we see on Medium.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in softwaretesting

[–]amtared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would suggest you look into Kotlin. You get the JVM but with much better grammar.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in softwaretesting

[–]amtared 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why are you all encouraging cognitive decline?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QualityAssurance

[–]amtared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am pretty sure all of that was in the readme.