Boris Grgincic

Software tester, team lead, working on automation, performance, security. Personal account.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

Sad news, I still remember some of the programs I wrote in Pascal. It was quite an experience way back in school.

[Bertrand Meyer @Bertrand_Meyer]

We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and friend.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

Not listening to this advice is a good recipe for ineffective automation.

[Richard Bradshaw @FriendlyTester]

Your team cannot create valuable automated tests/checks without exploratory testing.

You need to explore a system, to understand it enough to create valuable automation. Automation that is truly going to help the team make decisions. And not just generate noise/distraction.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@sbellware Meaning we would need even fewer integration tests with the system being easier to test and debug. Yeah, that sounds like a step up.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@sbellware But what precisely is your antithesis to these statements then?

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@AutomatedTester @ArminQE @id Using these strategies might indicate you have some bigger issues in your SDLC and process but for getting some automation coverage on legacy systems where adding IDs is not likely seems rather useful and simpler than CSS alternatives.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@AutomatedTester @ArminQE @id Sure, and syntax is simpler, but what are other valid reasons why such ID XPATH is that bad that it should "never be used" ? Performance?

In general, XPATH does have the advantage compared to CSS with its ability to traverse DOM up and left and locate elements by text.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@ArminQE @AutomatedTester Absolute ones for sure, but aren't relative locators such as this one good? //label[@id='clkBtn']

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@tottinge @prahladyeri @CFDevelop Can you elaborate in what way did you avoid it, testers are paired with developers most of the time, mobbing or something like that?

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@tottinge @prahladyeri @CFDevelop Isn't there at least 'mini' hand-off even in your team where developers finish something and the testers do the testing or create some automated tests?

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

If you wondered about how the ChatGPT magic happens.

[vicki @vboykis]

Here is a way to think about what actually happens when we type inside the ChatGPT textbox. Wonderful paper.

https://t.co/6lEKkldn17

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

Wow, that's an interesting read about possible scenarios how can an application fail if you lose your essential personel.

[Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital]

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@SayNoToAcassio @ministryoftest Can you elaborate how is the xpath in bellow example more flaky?

driver.find_element_by_xpath(“//input[@name=’password’]”)

driver.find_element_by_css_selector(“input[name=’password’]”)

Unless you are talking about absolute xpaths?

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

When communicating a bug report it's important for both sides to have a common point of understanding.

Sometimes, what seems obvious for one person can be fairly vague for the other.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@shs96c @jimevansmusic @titusfortner @PatrickBelange @SanjayKumaarr By "chaining" do you mean something like the chaining example provided on https://t.co/QbmZt4yhvy?

By submitLocator = RelativeLocator.with(By.tagName("button")).below(https://t.co/ixcDadGm7i("email")).toRightOf(https://t.co/ixcDadGm7i("cancel"));

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

If you ever wondered why your tests are flaky :)

[monkeyUser @ismonkeyuser]

Automation Struggles (https://t.co/a4EgWtr4lK)

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

Another mystery solved!

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@Nikolay_A00 There are a lot of small things that can be found in the docs, but the convenience of having a fast way to get a view such as this is really useful: https://t.co/yIEXfrYixe

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@Nikolay_A00 I can agree that basic html reports are questionable.

Allure though has more advanced features that add value for me. Logs&,screenshots ease troubleshooting, test descriptions are great for better test coverage visualization, TMS linking also helps with understanding, etc.

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@Nikolay_A00 Are you also talking here about more advanced html reporting like https://t.co/x8Keb94ivD ?

[Boris Grgincic @bgrgincic]

@ArjanKleene @CFDevelop @h3techdev @RealSwimburger Likewise you also verify and check the application logs that are exposed in some way on the server.