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  • R RugbyLeague

    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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    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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    • R RugbyLeague

      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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      • R RugbyLeague

        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

          Latest Articles - APOD Scraper and Hunt the Wumpus Short video on Membrane Computing Hunt the Wumpus (A HOPE video)

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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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          • R RugbyLeague

            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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              • R RugbyLeague

                Selenium/Gherkin

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                Marc Clifton
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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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                    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 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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                    • P Pualee

                      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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                      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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                        I'm desperately trying to find a down vote link for that! ;P

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