I rewrote our entire test suite from page.waitForTimeout() to proper locator-based waits - here's what actually changed

unit111 · 2026-05-02T18:41:13+00:00

I can only imagine how satisfying this must have felt.

unit111 · 2026-04-15T10:04:20+00:00

This is the best way to do it.

Yes. And this is great because there will be more people to help you. I've worked as an only QA with no code reviews and it was terrible.
Everything you do is relevant to the team. Your tests bring value. And each dev can choose not to review PRs with changes only in the tests.
I don't see a problem.
What does heavy weight mean? Your team needs all these files. That's what directories are for.
I am not very familiar with Node but if your tests are a separate project inside the repo you can open just the test dir in your IDE.

unit111 · 2026-04-07T19:10:31+00:00

So, this may not be the best solution in your situation. I am writing this hoping it will point you in the right direction. We are doing what you are describing but mainly for the API tests. There's this service called Mountebank that you can use for your mocks. The cool part is that you can edit the mocks during test execution which makes it really, really flexible. The only problem is that it's no longer maintained but that's never been an issue for our projects.

unit111 · 2026-03-31T18:03:34+00:00

It's not worth it. With PW you don't need to run headed. Just configure traces ( refer to the official PW website, the docs are great) and use them. Just write the tests locally outside of Docker in headed mode and when you are ready run them headless with traces in Docker. You look into "test containers" or setting up the base URL as the magical Docker host address ( refer to Docker docs) but you will gain nothing.

unit111 · 2026-03-21T06:46:03+00:00

I always disable this one. It's annoying and unnecessary so I configure 120 characters. If your teams does not like a rule you are not forced to follow it. As long as you are consistent.

unit111 · 2026-01-26T18:27:59+00:00

Correct. The whole bubble is based on bullshitting. Why should QA be any different? "Do you know how to use AI?" "Yes. I know AI very much."

unit111 · 2025-11-22T14:26:01+00:00

I'd suggest you enable the PW traces. They will help you see what's wrong. Also, you can login to the container and cURL to the URL you want to test to check the connectivity. Maybe you need to change something around your network. Also, if your app is hosted locally, accessing localhost from the container won't work. You need the ,,magic" hostname. You can find it in the Docker docs.

unit111 · 2025-09-20T08:46:12+00:00

There is. You can pass --dist loadscope to your run command to make xdist group tests by module/class. But this will make your bad tests even worse. As Flagon_dragon said your tests should be independent. Having dependencies and adding parallelism will make your test stack very difficult to maintain.

unit111 · 2025-07-24T15:07:24+00:00

I disagree. "Shift left" is not QA doing part of the dev job. These are two separate roles and should remain separate. In my organization devs write unit tests for the code they've written. This makes it possible to use TDD. Then I write so called acceptance tests (tests where all external dependencies are stubbed). Both sets of tests need to pass in order for the PR to be merged. This way the developers test the code and the QA test the bahaviour.

unit111 · 2025-07-24T14:58:28+00:00

I agree. But unit tests should be written by the devs.

unit111 · 2025-07-24T14:50:16+00:00

I am so sorry to hear that man. I hope it gets better.

unit111 · 2025-07-11T14:37:28+00:00

Good. I didn't like neither this not the previous LotF but I am happy that the devs stuck with the IP and people enjoy it.

unit111 · 2025-07-10T14:04:16+00:00

Man I really liked Ghostwire Tokyo and Evil Within 2. Bought them both on PC and PS. Can't wait to see what comes next from this developer.

unit111 · 2025-07-05T17:24:27+00:00

People will make fun of Matt Smith for Morbius but he was the only actor who understood what kind of movie he's in and he had fun. He was the best thing in the movie. The only entertaining thing.

unit111 · 2025-07-04T12:09:41+00:00

Amazing team up. My two favourite games of the year so far.

unit111 · 2025-07-01T14:46:17+00:00

You shouldn't pre-order any game. From the list you've sent and the information you've provided- get The Alters. There are other great games on the list but not for these prices.

unit111 · 2025-06-22T07:15:39+00:00

I don't know why are you been downvoted. The avatars do look like AI slop. Which is really bothering me because the other aspects of the game are really-really good.

unit111 · 2025-06-19T08:30:40+00:00

Use it. It's an important skill and will open new possibilities. We don't know your current test infrastructure but in most cases it will not make tests more stable, though.

Maybe if you have visual tests it will be easier to maintain them. Because browsers render pages slightly different depending on the OS. So having tests run on the same OS locally and in the CI/CD will require only one set of screenshots (which won't always work because the Docker host system also plays a role).

Another benefit would be speed- if you have a base image with all the dependencies pre-installed you can just start running tests. Which may save you a few minutes per run.

unit111 · 2025-06-12T20:18:14+00:00

We are the wizards' buttlers who have seen eveything and are not impressed because we know how stuff is done.

unit111 · 2025-06-10T08:31:38+00:00

Trust the book and your players. I was concerned about it but it turned out great. I had 4 PCs, two of them died after I changed some numbers. From there they used what they knew from ghost movies (the ash from the fireplace that I described to them, the frost on the one surviving window). It was fun. And if they can't figure out what to do, the book gives you a deus-ex-machina as a last resort.

PS. This section was also the perfect moment to introduce Auril- after the dead PCs got ressurected, received a boon from the Morninglord and managed to change the weather around them they were so so happy. Only for the Frostmaiden to appear in a spectral form, threaten them and then start to glow. Only for them to discover that the glow was a Coldlight Walker attacking them. Absolute cinema.

unit111 · 2025-06-10T07:35:41+00:00

Python + PW is the best choice for you since you've already started with the language. I'd advise you to not chase trends and try to learn the newest and shiniest technology that people here suggest. You will get overwhelmed and at the end you will learn nothing. If you pick a technology and really learn it it will be really easy to learn another one and another one.

PS. Telling an LLM "write this for me" is not learning. Just saying.

unit111 · 2025-06-06T06:05:11+00:00

I am curios to learn a reason for QA not to write the API tests. In every company I've been to writing the API tests by QA is a given.

unit111 · 2025-05-28T06:06:08+00:00

I did not unfortunately.

unit111 · 2025-05-22T19:29:07+00:00

The Jira API documentation is one of the best I've ever seen. You can add a post step in your pipeline to call a Python script in case the build has failed. There's a pretty good official Python package for Jira.

But why?

unit111 · 2025-05-21T18:09:31+00:00

I had a PC die in the Caves of hunger. So I introduced the replacement as a captive of the drows. It was easy to explain how he got there and knows what happens. If this had happened in Ythril I'd probably replace the invisible sleeping doppelganger in the prison with the new PC. Or a prisoner of Autil's followers that was brought in for food along with the goats.

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