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I am doing UI test automation

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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    The problem is...it's going to take a month or more to find a job, work out your notice and start your new job. And all that time you will be doing the thing that drove you to leave (along with any other nasty jobs that come up, since you are leaving anyway). So you will be starting the new job about the same time that you'd be getting into something more interesting in your current one, wouldn't you? ;)

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    RugbyLeague
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    This is true. In the meantime the business could decide that UI test automation is a complete and utter waste of time and effort and money :)

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      This is true. In the meantime the business could decide that UI test automation is a complete and utter waste of time and effort and money :)

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      OriginalGriff
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      And the new company could decide that since you already know how to do it it's got to be worth a try... :laugh:

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        I am thinking of looking for a new job. This is hideous

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        Marc Clifton
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        If you've got the right tools, I've found it can be quite fun. But if you're doing it manually, yeah, that is hideous. I had fun writing some custom code for testing WPF UI's recently. Took me down quite a few interesting rabbit holes which confirmed in my mind how poorly architected WPF actually is, but regardless, I got the UI test automation working in its own thread without any nasty "Sleep" calls. It's a solid testing framework and I'm quite proud of it actually. Marc

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          I am thinking of looking for a new job. This is hideous

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          Nagy Vilmos
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          Many moons ago, before white man come kill all buffalo... ~~~ :wavy hand thing: ~~~ Some bright numptous brain decided to write an autotesting hook for our UI. It required hooks to be added into myriad different places in the code base - which obliviously went undocumented and so didn't get added in. The idea was that they could build a test version of the front end container that would use all these hooks for auto testing. ... except testing needed to be done against the release build

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            If you've got the right tools, I've found it can be quite fun. But if you're doing it manually, yeah, that is hideous. I had fun writing some custom code for testing WPF UI's recently. Took me down quite a few interesting rabbit holes which confirmed in my mind how poorly architected WPF actually is, but regardless, I got the UI test automation working in its own thread without any nasty "Sleep" calls. It's a solid testing framework and I'm quite proud of it actually. Marc

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            RugbyLeague
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            WPF I could probably cope with - this is HTML/ASP.net (which I have no experience in whatsoever)

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              WPF I could probably cope with - this is HTML/ASP.net (which I have no experience in whatsoever)

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              Marc Clifton
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              RugbyLeague wrote:

              this is HTML/ASP.net

              Yum. Working with Cucumber/Capybara in Ruby on Rails is pretty cool. There's some equivalent (I'd give you a link but my google-fu is lacking at the moment) for ASP.NET integration testing that, if I did ASP.NET development, I would definitely look into. What tools are you guys using? Marc

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                RugbyLeague wrote:

                this is HTML/ASP.net

                Yum. Working with Cucumber/Capybara in Ruby on Rails is pretty cool. There's some equivalent (I'd give you a link but my google-fu is lacking at the moment) for ASP.NET integration testing that, if I did ASP.NET development, I would definitely look into. What tools are you guys using? Marc

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                Selenium/Gherkin

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                  Selenium/Gherkin

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                  RugbyLeague wrote:

                  Selenium/Gherkin

                  Ah yes, that's what I was thinking of. Marc

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                  • R RugbyLeague

                    I am thinking of looking for a new job. This is hideous

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                    Pualee
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                    I am too. I am trying to figure out why this isn't QA's job. What is their job anyway?

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      And the new company could decide that since you already know how to do it it's got to be worth a try... :laugh:

                      Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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                      Mycroft Holmes
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                      I used to use Crystal Reports in the 90s and it was on my CV which I have not updated in a decade. I recently got a job offer in Sydney doing CR in VB.net, be careful what you wish for!

                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                        I am too. I am trying to figure out why this isn't QA's job. What is their job anyway?

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                        JimmyRopes
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                        Pualee wrote:

                        I am trying to figure out why this isn't QA's job. What is their job anyway?

                        To publicise your results. :laugh:

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                          Pualee wrote:

                          I am trying to figure out why this isn't QA's job. What is their job anyway?

                          To publicise your results. :laugh:

                          **_Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.

                          I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong._**
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                          Pualee
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                          I'm desperately trying to find a down vote link for that! ;P

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