How to Know Your Test Automation Project Is Doomed
Here are a few common signals that may indicate your test automation project is on the road to failure.
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Here are a few common signals that may indicate your test automation project is on the road to failure.
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But there are many software testers out there who are not actually testers! They can write test automation, but they don’t know how to think like a tester. I call these folks “lazy developers”.
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It is not unusual at all to read a 20 year-old paper with a tool empirically shown to make programmers 4x faster at a task, and for the underlying idea to still be locked in academia. (…) I will now present 3 of my favorite tools from the last 30 years, all of which I’ve tried to use, none of which currently run.
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The
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module in the Python standard library can be used to create, visit, and modify AST related to Python source code. (…) Even if it is part of standard library since a long time, it is not common to use it directly. Rather, you might have used it indirectly as popular tools use it under-the-hood.
JavaScript has come a long way since I knew it as the “D” in DHTML. For anyone like me, who’s been reluctant to use the latest syntax that could require polyfills or a transpiler, I’ve written this cheatsheet to get you caught up on all the goodness that’s widely supported in modern browsers.
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