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anyways, my manager "created" a goal for me this year (achievement of goals is 90% of annual review) of learning automated testing tools from a QA perspective (specifically selenium). the web app that i'll be responsible for is mostly php based, but the trouble is I have limited programming background ( i can read code fairly well, in order to trouble shoot things, but writing my own stuff is not great). any ideas where to begin beside d/l the selenium ide? i assume i'll need to pick up a scripting language to make the selenium IDE more productive, but any thoughts on which to go with?
err worst totp ever?
So very, very much of the CS knowledge I use every day was not covered at all in classes, and I attended a university with a rather beefy CS program. Don't worry about what the curriculum is going to cover, or how good the professors are. Just spend a significant chunk of your free time writing code. StackOverflow is your new best friend.
And it doesn't matter if you lack a predisposition toward programming. As long as you spend time outside of class just experimenting with code (and reading that written by others!) in a variety of languages, you'll be dramatically ahead of your classmates. You'll also hopefully create a few items that you could add to a portfolio, even if it's relatively simple. The aptitude to pursue personal projects constitutes significant merit by employers, perhaps more than a prestigious degree (especially if they include a fellow programmer in the interview process).
In this field more than most, more than perhaps any other, the degree is just a piece of paper. A necessary one, but still. Companies generally recognize that this is a young science, and will value your capacity to learn more highly than your capacity to recite what you already know.
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This.
Hey, high 5, this is basically what I'm doing, learning selenium to do testing. I personally am using java, but we're working on a java project, and I want to be able to fit the testing into our project as seamlessly as possible. If you have free reign to pick a language, it probably won't make a huge difference what you pick, but I guess I'd suggest ruby? It's a pretty clean simple language. But, for the most part, writing tests doesn't involve a ton of complicated logic, so once you learn enough of a language to actually get the test suite to run at all, that's probably about all you need. It's just going to be a list of commands to the browser telling it what to do with the page, then a bunch of assert statements where you tell it what should be on the page. And if you're using the ide, it might not even be that complex, since you can just use the recorder to do it without coding. But yeah, just get the plugin with the recorder, read the guide about it, and play with it and see how much code you even need.
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Open source is another way in. For example, I work on a team that does stuff based off of Gentoo - and several maintainers are on the team, hired directly for their experience
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Original source of SIGHUP is sending to the wrong pid (do you get a new pid when you re-exec)?
Signal hasn't been masked out by accident?
Log out of site, log in again. Code now works. And the error I got was trying to get a property of a non-object, which is not something that should be fixed by that.
Yep, a Heisenbug.
For instance, I graduated from ITT Tech. So long as I'm not getting hired by a CEO from Harvard looking for other Harvardites this isn't so much of an issue. Know your shit, know how to explain your shit, know what the company you're interviewing does, know how to apply your knowledge to what they do, ask for paycheck.
Cached HTML issue mayhaps?
So last week, I walked some code. I thought the code was excellent, probably some of my best work. Everyone understood it within 15 minutes. It was slightly outside of the way DJango's class based views (CBVs) work -- but Django's CBVs don't fit our need very well at all.
But I was told to use a completely different approach, which involves redesigning the whole thing. I wasn't able to persuade them that Django's CBVs don't at all work well in this case, and now I need to write it in a way that makes use of Django's CBVs.
The problem is that every time I sit down (in the last 2 workdays) to work on rewriting it again, I just get angry. I think part of my frustration is just how freaking easy this current solution is to understand, and how when I start to imagine a different solution, I keep comparing it to the current solution and thinking, "This is not better." And I can't seem to get past it. I don't know if I'm just burnt out or what.
I've found it significantly easier when I can write code the way I want at home.
That makes the code that makes-no-god-damned-since-oh-my-god-what-the-fuck-am-I-doing much better to handle.
Whatever bro, they're writing my checks! Then at 5:00 I check the fuck out and go home and code my way or play video games.
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I went from a big company where we had to do it their way or the highway to a smaller R&D firm where I do it however the fuck I want as long as it works. I make less money then I would if I went to work for a big tech company, but I am so much happier.
It's a godsend, ain't it?
And then we went with that.
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Make a data translation tool that a BA can enter in the requirements and it takes the input and spits out the appropriate output, in short order.
Not having the tools or development time of typical GUI apps was the main decision point.
We have an HL7/Cloverleaf spec for importing in-flight visits from a transitioning site, but the data is not a logical one-to-one mapping. All the requirements and differences had to be defined and mapped and we didn't have Cloverleaf resource time to work on that.
So I'm like sup, I can make a CSV-CSV translate tool that even a BA can program.
Super success btw.
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We did! We busted out the VBA! :rotate:
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My god... it's... full of knives.
I found that my level of caring was inversely proportional to the size of my paycheque. Of course my Mortgage variable curving sharply upwards definitely plays a part in this theory.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few stabbings in my time.
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It's up for me.