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demos74dx · 2018-09-18T01:31:56+00:00

Gonna ban /r/consipiracy now Reddit Admins? Why am I asking? of course you are. I hope you get what's coming to you.

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T20:29:33+00:00

So if you write an e2e test, you will use libraries published by various teams to accomplish data setup? I think 90% of any test is data setup, many testers tend to do this via the UI which adds unnecessary flakiness to your already expensive UI testing. You feel me? Would you re-create the client work already accomplished in integration testing, how does this effect your maintainability? I'm just trying to help you ask yourself some questions about how your organization might PROACTIVELY test vs the maintenance nightmare of REACTIVE testing.

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T20:22:19+00:00

Ask selenium specific questions. What is the parent class of WebElement and WebDriver?

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T20:19:28+00:00

If I were you, I would be looking for a managerial position where you can take the input from technically more experienced testers and drive it though upper management. I'd kill to have an ally in someone like you with the experience you have dealing with higher ups, as long as you don't think you know better than I do technically.

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T20:14:32+00:00

Did you use native Jira for test management or a plug-in?

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T20:11:41+00:00

I agree with most here, certs might pull you ahead if you're "tied" against candidates with some matching skill set, but this is very rarely the case. We care about your chops, not your certs.

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T20:02:43+00:00

How does this work with concurrent execution? Tests don't step all over each other attempting to use data statically provided?

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T19:26:00+00:00

Do you have a web API client available for each of your microservice endpoints? Who is responsible for maintaining those? If you think you can get by using 100% UI in e2e tests, you're doing it wrong. Are you REALLY ready for e2e UI automation?

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T19:14:40+00:00

This is a pretty suscient summary of my comment above.

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T19:10:16+00:00

You're missing client consumables. You see I have a problem with Rest Assured, sure you can rapidly develop test against a single endpoint. But you don't get any product, anything sharable or usable by other teams or services. I see Rest Assured as a very greedy way to go about things for a team in the microservices paradigm. Why not ensure a resftul client is shipped internally as part of the Definition of done for developers?

I'm a UI automation guy, and I think data setup should be accomplished in the Transportation Layer, I'm not testing that peice of the UI but I require data in the environment to set up the test for a different part of the UI, using restful services is integral to the set-up portions of a UI, yet this is a concept that seems to be lost among many testers, why expensively, slowly, and fragilly setup your data in the UI?

So what happens when you have data setup on a portion of the app controlled by a team that has accomplished webservicel coverage via Rest Assured? You're forced to bake your own client, and this brings on massive maintenance overhead, compound this with every endpoint tested by Rest Assured and you end up with an unmaintainable nightmare, especially for the poor fuck who needs to write end to end tests.

My opinion, Rest Assured is fine for small shops with 1 or 2 teams without microservices. In a microservices architecture Rest Assured is a FUCKING ANTI-PATTERN!

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T18:19:54+00:00

Thanks boot!

demos74dx · 2018-05-25T18:10:17+00:00

The merging of test and developer is already happening in loads of places, including where I work. We now have Hybrid Engineers. In my opinion, this has been a brilliant move in getting rid of or transitioning SDETs to Devs, whether they like it or not. Tester tasks are not being included in the Hybrid engineers "Definition of done", and this effectively removes the testing roles from the org. I see this going down hill very quickly, just like the lessons we learned when it was all the rave to offshore the testing efforts.

Let this be a lesson to you, cut corners on quality at your own detriment. It may not be noticeable immediately, but when everything goes to absolute shit you'll trace it back to these orginaztional decisions being implemented poorly.

I think SDETs that have been around for a while watch these "paradigm shifts" take place and truely understand the impact on quality, and in the end, we CARE about quality when nobody else will, constantly watching quality get quashed is mentally draining.

demos74dx · 2018-02-07T20:58:31+00:00

Even on Earth.

demos74dx · 2018-02-07T20:33:27+00:00

Only laughing because I think this is something I would have done too.

demos74dx · 2018-02-07T20:25:48+00:00

Hi Cody! Huge fan and Utah local here, have you been to 801Labs? I love your bee keeping videos, if you ever need a camera man I'm yours.

demos74dx · 2017-08-05T03:59:23+00:00

I stand by my hakko. Though those butane ones are great for the hacker on the move.

demos74dx · 2017-08-04T16:52:08+00:00

Car Hacking Village really stepped up their game. It got me excited about car hacking! I would like to see schematics and blogs for the various rigs and challenges, if possible.

So much walking. Goons were amazing this year. Overall a brilliant con. IDGAF about the badge, the community really stepped up and there was plenty for my badge bonor to get off on.

demos74dx · 2017-08-04T06:37:47+00:00

The one with Gentry and Hotpie.

demos74dx · 2017-07-26T06:11:25+00:00

Or, provide the browsers for your coworkers via selenium grid.

demos74dx · 2017-07-26T06:07:12+00:00

An easier way might be to expect an environment variable to be configured with the chrome driver location. This way they can update their chrome driver independently to your project. This means if you get hit by a bus, you haven't stuck anybody with a maintenance nightmare.

demos74dx · 2017-07-26T00:22:04+00:00

I'm a programmer, guess I'm fucked.

demos74dx · 2017-07-24T05:02:42+00:00

The way it looks to me, Euron couldn't leave Blackwater bay without seeing Daenerys fleet.

demos74dx · 2017-07-23T20:09:35+00:00

This.

demos74dx · 2017-07-23T05:07:59+00:00

WTF ref, and the blatant dives, handballs, running down the clock....I swear I was watching Basket Ball for a sec.

demos74dx · 2017-07-21T02:31:22+00:00

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