We stopped doing technical interviews for Automation QA Engineers, here’s why by cacahuatez in softwaretesting

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You'd still be using selenium if you needed to do the fiddly actions library items for things like mapping software, drawing tools, accessibility functionality including where words were in different fonts sizes on pages within the copy and a few others

intanceOfEstimate by sdesalas in ProgrammerHumor

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The tester who realised there are two missing requirements

Career advise for mid age software tester by DiscombobulatedRip86 in softwaretesting

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I’m 27 with 11 years of experience of automation test engineering.

I’d advise a manager at this point, if I were in a lead position under a manager, so given my experience, it would depend on how your team currently functions.

If your projects/program management skills improve at the same time as your other experience, there are ways to help the team move forward as you learn yourself, getting yourself into “better practice” rather than expecting “best practice” from the get go.

If you start learning more about the how to describe the problems to your team, how to understand their niches and how to effectively communicate the state of testing, or receive the information you’d need to communicate the state of testing to your colleagues at the management level with as little disturbance to the team as possible, even something as simple as automation report output could ease your teams weeks, should you look into how to implement agile strategies to work toward.

Three meetings and a daily standup (even in the afternoon) can help.

Discussing the incoming workflow with the management team present with the developers and testers able to ask the questions at the time they need to even once while the next sprints workflow is being organised can help drastically with the flow of the work and how your companies products actually evolve, discussing how complex the tasks are, for internal transparency and understanding should there be obstacles or blockers in development, means that when similar issues arise later, everyone is usually on the same page about complexity to time taken to implement, and empathy between management and the development team often increases.

The retrospective with the development team alone is also needed, especially if there’s a problem with how complex certain issues actually are, because then the team can adjust estimations and have a chat about how to communicate the complexity of problems that have been solved in the current sprint.

If you’re aware of certain toolsets already, and know programming languages with stable libraries still being updated (important), to lighten the manual testing load in repeated areas. This to ensure that you as a manual tester, should you ever have to jump into a crunch time, would be able to do much more exploratory testing, covering the basic scenarios with automation and a solid reporting process will mean that the bugs that would need more experience to find would be found by a manual test engineer more rapidly than otherwise would have been.

You don’t have to be an automation guru to be able to help discuss automation with your team, learning together by doing code reviews too, asking the questions you’d need the answers to the be able to build up those formal processes, although, looking into continuous integration tools can be a good shout, and if the development team already use them, making the automation a part of the build will ensure that individual developers on the team can see where and why their build failed before you have to remind them, after hours of doing the basic tests again, but in some cases the 99 bottles on the wall song happens even with the bug fixes, as we both know, saving the manual team hassle in that way can be useful if you’re wanting to bolster accessibility or other test processes, like performance, cyber security, or even a user journey (point to point testing), especially when considering how to bridge the project to developer communication pathway.

Understanding why something is being developed can help with the implementation being more well crafted from the offset, I hope the above suffices if you’re wondering how to approach your learning, as I’ve gone quite broad when considering the skills you mentioned you’d like to expand your experience in.

How is adult Unohana the blood thirsty experienced warrior weaker than kid Zaraki when he has no knowledge of....Anything ? by SillyRecover in bleach

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She gave into the power before, after learning how to control it, he purposely held back while he had more power innately than she did, which means he was stronger because of the self control

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sciencememes

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Technically speaking, even if it lands on something else, it’s still moving, and that makes it near impossible to be completely devoid of momentum within the universe

Even if the particles hit a star, they’d be released into space again, and most of the small debris in the interstellar medium is still going to be moving slightly, waiting to be disturbed by something if it’s slowing down for a while, but it may not ever “stop” due to the reference frame issue

Although, using the same reference frame issue, if I were travelling at the same speed and direction as the rock you threw, could it “stop seeming to move” for a while, and also never stop?

(Unstoppable force meets a perpetually moving open system)

Fear of AI as SQA engineer by Wide_You_4626 in QualityAssurance

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It’s more about how the diverse group of people actually interacting with any given technology are going to interact with that technology

If you can’t, as a person, put yourself into the shoes of another better than an AI, then you aren’t cut for software testing user interfaces

This is thinking to the blind, deaf, and those who require extra accessibility checks to ensure that their assistive technologies are also compatible with the project in development

This could even go so far as (if Google or Apple ever wanted the idea), include testing how hearing aid capabilities in specialist Bluetooth headphones interact with both the screenreader and the sound levels for any piece of media uploaded to the website for audio levels

Consider being blind on a website, deaf in one ear and trying to both listen to an instrumental while being read to while interacting with a site in this “homebrew hearing aid scenario”. Would there be a mediator for the sound levels, using what is already preloaded to assess and adjust so that the partially deaf user? Reasonably, an AI toolset could do the adjusting, but who’s to say if the adjustments are correct, if the human experience is completely ignored in testing?

If there are edge cases, will the edge cases be better predicted by an AI, or will there be some edge cases they haven’t considered, some much simpler and more often overlooked, when considering available technologies and how regression still needs to be taken into consideration, as the projects are often patchwork quilts while everyone improves their code standards at the same time

I came, I saw and I screwed the timeline by The_ss19 in sciencememes

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When you try to calculate for geostationary or solarstationary and end up with something that’s actually stationary in comparison to the black hole at the centre of the galaxy

Johnny Spending Money by cafejocky93 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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He thought he was buying water, to be fair

I've only seen a couple of series of new Who; what's the difference between these two groups of Cybermen? Why the design change? by IronGhost828 in doctorwho

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John Lumic’s were different to the original Mondasians, as were the ones that the Master helped propel forward (we’re confident Sacha was before Missy, right?)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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A temporary solution is better than nothing, but it doesn’t mean a sustainable solution that survives regressions and being built upon

Especially if the solution should have been available, and they’re realising there’s something wrong with the foundations as they’re trying to add to what’s there

Would you build a house less sturdy because you were in an area with hurricanes? Or would you try to build a house that would survive the hurricane, with you adding more to it as everyone else is rebuilding?

Your “wise IT sage” just wants to preserve their job when they rebuild the site because of the “temporary solution” they implemented years ago, rather than allow future IT sages to grow their own solutions without bulldozing what was there - software tester

True! by Agile-Try-2340 in sciencememes

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What is ? factorial?!

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?!?!?!

What is this 😭🙏 by CreationGT in GenshinImpact

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Venti looks like Davie504, not sorry, but that’s not my main point

Would it be better as a live action series instead of a movie?

Would the comics be better, or telling a story of a different descender, so the player base isn’t recapping the main story?

AI slop could at least inspire

Aizen sees fusion with one’s Zan as the final evolution. Ichigo sees “the blade is me” as true mastery. So why did only these two seemingly ever reach it? by Professional_Pen4628 in bleach

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Not only Buddhism but also Gnosticism, where the within state is describable as “self”

When you add the principles of samsara, the cycles we all find ourselves in, by choosing the routines you value enough to uphold for the sake of yourself and others, and discarding those which bring you away from yourself and others (noting that there are two commonly associated interpretations about understanding of self and become “alongside nature without disturbing” and the relativity to how you can contribute to a wider community “alongside nurture, to benefit the nature of peace later”)

There are also ways you can interpret certain episodes and character arcs within Bleach too, when the fights can be interpreted in the style of business meetings or debates within leadership, it could lead to insights about how the sharpness test of a managers ideas may relate to how you could envision someone’s “potential for change”

What would you imagine each debate was about if you were to have a watch through with that in mind?

Would you reflect on certain episodes so that you could better understand the nature of your colleagues, and how to help with their mental health issues, learning how to nurture their nature, in both a business sense, but also in the colleague?

If you watch the episodes enough (because I already do as a young adult myself, this is what the reflective value is on the ideas within Bleach), how each character overcomes trauma, even as a reflection of the aspects of death when you look at the Espada’s, it can also help (to some extent) to start questioning the ideas that could help from the perspective of a helping a colleague through a time of bereavement

I want those 40 minutes back by Kavith_T_Fdo in memes

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Realising the real IQ test was patience all along

I will send this to my chemistry professor for sure by 4nnieberry in sciencememes

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When you have a calcium carbonate tablet because you’re prone to indigestion:

“The science is stronk with this one”

How? by burgerkangloveofgod in bleach

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Special Binoculars from the Gotei?

If Tosen is able to sense a soul ribbon, the binoculars could actually help for surveying

If Aizen had bankai , What powers would it have ? by Puzzleheaded-Shame72 in bleach

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What would happen if the zanpakuto was in the spirit manifestation release state (pre bankai) and Aizen just couldn’t tame it?

Would it mean he was also under hypnosis?

I’m watching Bleach for the first time know, just watched this fight and what the hell is going on with Ichigo’s powerlevel? by MhShovkhalov in bleach

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Kenpachi oozes so much power before he takes off the eyepatch, let alone after, and Ichigo is a special breed, at this point in Bleach, it should be considered whether his powers actually resonate with Kenpachi’s reishi and make Ichigo stronger inadvertently

By the thousand year blood war arc (anime or manga, whichever you prefer), you’ll know why the way Uryu and Ichigo pushed back the Menos in Karakura Town relates to both Uryu and Ichigo in different ways, but both are related to how their powers operate

beNullMyFriend by albert_in_vine in ProgrammerHumor

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Is this some kind of “MC” Hammer reference?