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Lead developer in #DevOps and #Testing. Astrophysicist by training. Often curler, rower, cycler, and baker too. He/him. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

For those switching over to #Mastodon find me here: @[email protected]

I don't use twitter much but it's good to see what the testing hive mind is up to. I'm hoping I can find the same over there.

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

@sshsergey @ragunathjawahar @AdamTornhill Yes @ragunathjawahar is right. Tests also suffer from being too verbose. What I removed was a lot of over-engineered and unused code, as a prelude to other refactoring/redesign efforts, to remove that extra cost and liability.

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@simon_tomes I would love to know if there's a testing hangout! I'm setting up on @[email protected] but still figuring things out

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

@jennydoesthings And stop saying we can't trust them, or that they lack some magical tester mindset

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

@fishouthebox I think it's just because buzzwords are more successful memes than plain English.

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

I built a desktop back in 2013 and it survived 3 trips on moving trucks, but today carrying it from one room to another seems to have been the last straw. Aside from some loud fans it won't turn on at all 😞

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

@BeardedTesterUK I think it's friendlier for anything code-related, e.g. installing packages and using a terminal. That might just be because I'm much more used to it, but it's a big advantage to be on the same platform as the developers on my team (and dev teams are usually on mac)

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@ckenst Fear at deploy time

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

If you do #TestAutomation in Toronto, I'm hiring 2 QA Engineers! One in #API testing a financial microservice system (java/spring), another doing #WebdriverIO UI + API (nextjs/typescript). Hybrid downtown. DMs are open.

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

@CAkehurstRyan @ministryoftest *sighs in Enterprise*

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

new little song:

"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"

[Tina Fletcher @fletchertinam]

Cool insights from @GregPaciga's #TQ2022 talk:

- All of his team's "flaky" automated tests could be fixed by making improvements to the application itself
- How a team approaches testing defines how agile they really are

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

It seems like in the last 6 months all my banks updated their sites to SPAs that share the same 2 bugs: (1) require a refresh after logging in to display anything and (2) fail to update balances after doing transactions.

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

If you're a QA doing UI testing, please do yourself (and me) a favour: learn a JavaScript framework and ditch Java. I don't care which one, honestly, but speaking the same language as devs is one of the best things you can do.

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

a debugging manifesto

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

Pro tip: Don't plagiarize your resume.

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@DanAshby04 @CAkehurstRyan Alas, I've heard it multiple times in the last two weeks 😞

[@[email protected] @GregPaciga]

"We can't trust devs to test or produce quality code!"

"Do you know their names?"

"..."

"Maybe start there."