Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by bayindirh on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:58AM
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Considering you can do a lot of automated testing with many browsers at the same time, this excuse doesn't fly.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by themitigating on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:36AM
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It's not the testing/finding problems it's the effort to fix them
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by bayindirh on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:39AM
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If it already works 99.9% of the time, why not run a series of tests, at least?
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by themitigating on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:39AM
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If you aren't going to fix the problems why?
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by bayindirh on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:47AM
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If you're a company with good intentions, solving trivial problems won't cost you any significant time, then.
So, if things are working mostly, and you're intentionally not fixing the trivial problems, then you have bad intentions either directly or indirectly.
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by mccorrinall on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:13AM
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Aren’t they the authors of playwright anyway? THE library to test with all major browsers.
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by bayindirh on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:34AM
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I'm not a web dev, but oh, you're right [0].
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by tomduncalf on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:59AM
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I imagine the tricky bit is testing the audio/video parts – "does the video work reliably with multiple participants" or whatever is probably quite hard to entirely judge in an automated fashion. It wouldn't surprise me if a reasonable amount of tests for something like Teams were still manual, though I'd love to be proven wrong!
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by mccorrinall on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @12:06PM
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> I imagine the tricky bit is testing the audio/video parts – "does the video work reliably with multiple participants" or whatever is probably quite hard to entirely judge in an automated fashion.
I actually forgot that Teams has audio and video. You are right about testing those two, I don't have a good idea for that either. I would probably look into using a virtual cam, like OBS implemented one, and then just check the footage on the other end?
But honestly, Firefox usually just works.
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by falsenapkin on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:57PM
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I imagine at the 180k people strong corporation there may be some gaps between those who work on Teams and those who work on Playwright
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by brynjolf on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:39PM
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I agree. Honestly most likely they don't have the resources, the management, the money, the development experience, the culture, the transportation, the air to breathe, the water to drink ro the food tør at to solve this immense problem. Most likely they never even heard of Firefox, Chromium, Puppeteer, Browserstack, Playwright, Selenium or the internet.
Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
by falsenapkin on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:48PM
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> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.