Re:Signposts for “when to hire more QA testers”
by dmurray on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:13PM
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> With regard to the web, it's very easy to write automated tests against server-generated HTML or an HTTP API.
Funny, I find the opposite. Code for the web is hard to write reliable tests for. Typically I want to test that my component actually exists and is visible and does the right thing in a browser, so I need to produce the whole page instead of just the unit under test. This means that bugs - or just changes - in other parts of the page can make my test fail.
I'm not a front end expert and my colleagues rarely have been either, so maybe I'm missing something about best practices here, but I've definitely had the opposite experience to what you describe.
Funny, I find the opposite. Code for the web is hard to write reliable tests for. Typically I want to test that my component actually exists and is visible and does the right thing in a browser, so I need to produce the whole page instead of just the unit under test. This means that bugs - or just changes - in other parts of the page can make my test fail.
I'm not a front end expert and my colleagues rarely have been either, so maybe I'm missing something about best practices here, but I've definitely had the opposite experience to what you describe.