I am working on earning my SDET title - and have made some progress. I'm slowly catching up on the manual tests that we need and starting some automation. One thing that is slowing me down is there are no records of requirements for many of the features of the application, so I'm diving into legacy code, teasing out what should happen "if". Some of them are obvious - if you try and log in with a correct account, you should be given access at that level. But very few are this simple, and planning for tests and time with people who have helped the system grow into the way it is has been a challenge all by itself. The first automation I wrote checks the log in page - a simple task. There had been recent changes, but the tests have finally been code-reviewed to be placed into the pipeline. Still reeling from this, I started the next series of tests. These were more challenging: the page that any user would open after logging in. I have been discovering Playwright, and te
The short-post ramblings of a 'sandwich generation' person who is trying to make a second career around her child and parent (and is financially dependent on them). The posts will be short: simply due to time constraints.