Paul Maxwell-Walters

Sandeep Kumar, Lead Quality Engineer at Gumtree Australia, kicks off Sydney Testers' first meetup of 2025, hosted by Gumtree, with his talk about their approach to Quality. #qa #testing #tech #sydneytesters #gumtree

Dear All, I hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday and wish you a most happy and successful New Year!

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Not to mention all the other overworking can lead to I.e. health problems due to stress and not having time to exercise or see the doctor, marriages and relationships breaking down, parents not seeing their kids, depression...

I may be a QA heretic but when it comes to AI I think it is far less important that we testers learn to use some AI tool to write or automate test cases - & far more important (& interesting) the industry learns how to test and judge AI systems, agents, LLMs and integrations with our apps under test

I already use Playwright a bit at work, so this was an opportunity to do something with a different toolset. I tried Cypress but it struggled with seeing into our shadow doms so we stopped.

I can't comment on Selenium drag and drop unfortunately as it wasn't part of the project I did.

After writing an automation framework & tests in it recently, for the first time in 10 years (and in Python of all things) - I must say that Selenium Webdriver is still pretty damn good & easy to use.

Also some of the annoying things like managing drivers have been abstracted to be much easier.

Thanks T.J. Hope you're well BTW

That sucks, hope things get better

We used to have skinks such as bluetongues around my apartment block all the time. Adorable creatures 🥰. Sadly I think the local cats got them.

Sorry All, I joined BlueSky and then forgot about it for about a year. What #testing #QA #softwaretesting feeds do you recommend?

Thanks for coming and the great talk! I agree, it was such a good vibe last night for our Christmas event.

I quite liked the Anthony Ainley version myself.

Yes but you would miss out on the pure joy of putting them in a row...

From the blog archives. On Testing This Pen.

How the old interview question "(How would you) test this pen?" tells us much about how candidates approach problems.

#testing #QA #interviews #softwaretesting #careers

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The Thames towards the London Eye and Houses of Parliament.

City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia.