* Posts by Goatpod

3 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2015

Using AI in your tech stack? Accuracy and reliability a worry for most

Goatpod
Terminator

The tooling isn't there

A lot of testing tools were quick to jump on the AI bandwagon, it was disingenuous and was limited to self healing selectors in a DOM. Big deal, you still have to maintain those tests... fudged AI buzzword tooling or not.

Applitools and Leapwork might have some nifty tooling, again mostly for browser DOM and visual changes in a browser... but these are very expensive platforms (Applitools is anyway, not so sure on Leapwork), so forget about it unless you work for a big company with money to spare. Opening a browser and interacting with it is an expensive operation and can be a brittle way to do things but browsers do not equal LLMs.

I could use AI currently to generate some test cases perhaps, or send inputs via an API to verify the output... it's basically black box testing and it's basically slow.

IE and Graphics head Microsoft's Patch Tuesday critical list

Goatpod
Boffin

Re: Firefox is catching the Microsoft attitude.

Why not code your Selenium tests rather than rely on the IDE? You can then run against any browser including the new Firefox Marionette Driver.

The Firefox driver is being deprecated with Firefox 46 which is bound to affect the addon in some way until they can upgrade it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionette/WebDriver

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Goatpod
Joke

Can't wait for the 5 laser version with a vibrating handle for an even closer shave...