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Every time I meet a new potential client, I ask this question: “What types of bugs aren’t you catching?” It’s never meant to be snarky. The point of the question is to make sure the client knows there’s a difference between the “what” of automated testing, and the “how”. The “what” is the thing being…
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It’s possible to write too much test automation. I get that it’s cool and fun to come in and slam out code that does work for you so you don’t have to. Getting to learn new tech to get the job done is a great feeling. But, as with any code, each line that you write has…
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A client had a bunch of Cucumber tests that ran from a Jenkins job. Running these took 90 minutes, even when spread across many nodes. This was too long to get fast enough feedback, so it ran only a few times per day. And it wasn’t in sync with any developer check-ins either. …
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When an automation solution no longer works well, companies have a choice. They can either keep trying to work with it, or they can switch to a new solution. Many companies choose the former. As more time, money and energy gets spent on one solution, it becomes harder to make a change. And the longer…
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Many companies already have an open-source test automation solution in place. But many of them know they’re not getting the most out of it. Sometimes it’s due to high maintenance. Sometimes it’s how fast tests get created. Other times it’s a limited number of people who can write the tests. If some, or all, of those…
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For every software company, there comes a time where the testing team won’t be able to move any faster. There’s only so much testing that can happen and still hit reasonable deadlines. That same company will usually solve this with test automation. Either they’ll hire one or more automation engineers, or buy an external tool.…
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So I saw a LinkedIn post the other day saying “Please stop writing frameworks from scratch”. It ended up being a product plug for yet another tool claiming to do everything needed for test automation. I get why this tool, and dozens of others, keep coming out. I’m sure a lot of it is because…
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A few months ago, I challenged myself to come up with a snappy title that explained what I did, in a minimal amount of space, and also has my consultancy mentioned in there. There’s not a lot of real estate, so I came up with: Weaponizer of Manual Testers – archdevops.com Since that change, I…
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If you just want to see what’s going on, do you need to automate a test for that? Nope! Try a dashboard instead.
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