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Why are you still an automation engineer?AI writes 90% of your code... Why are you still a automation engineer? ~ credits @nishantgohel
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Is AI Actually Making Testing Better?We’re building AI agents faster than we’re learning how to test them. Have we improved software quality—or just…
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How do you persist authentication state across Playwright tests without logging in every time?Our Playwright suite has 200+ tests and login takes 3–4 seconds each time. Running everything serially we're losing ~15…
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How do I prepare for a senior SDET interview — what is actually assessed?I have a senior SDET interview at a product company (Series C, ~200 engineers) in 3 weeks. I've done 2 SDET interviews…
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How do you handle multiple authenticated user roles in a single Playwright test?I'm writing a test for an admin action that should be visible to admins but hidden from regular users. The test needs…
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How do you onboard new team members to a large legacy test suite?We have a 1,200-test suite built over 4 years. Good test coverage, but: - No documentation of test strategy or…
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How do you test file uploads reliably in Playwright across different OS environments?File uploads work fine locally (macOS) but fail intermittently in our Linux CI containers. We're using…
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How are you using AI to generate test assertions specifically — not just test structure?Most AI test generation demos show the happy path: given a function, generate a test skeleton. I've seen this work OK.…
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Where do you find remote SDET roles and what terms are actually negotiable?I'm based in Southeast Asia and targeting remote SDET roles at US/European companies. The job market feels opaque.…
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Best approach for testing file downloads in Playwright?I need to test that a CSV export button downloads the correct file with the right data. Our app generates the file…
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How do you handle auth token refresh in long-running API test suites?Our auth tokens expire after 1 hour. Most CI runs complete in 30–40 minutes so it's fine, but nightly full-suite runs…
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When should you use Playwright component testing vs full E2E tests?Playwright now supports component testing (React/Vue/Svelte) which blurs the line with E2E tests. In practice I'm…
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How do you test AI/ML features in your product — what assertions even make sense?Our product has a few LLM-powered features (a summarisation tool, a smart search). I'm trying to figure out how to test…
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Common pitfalls when using pytest-asyncio with FastAPI tests?I'm testing a FastAPI application with pytest-asyncio and httpx.AsyncClient and hitting a few rough edges. Issues I've…
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What prompts work best for generating pytest tests from an OpenAPI spec?I have a FastAPI service with a well-maintained OpenAPI spec (auto-generated by FastAPI). I want to generate a…
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Playwright + TypeScript strict mode — how do you type Page Object Models properly?I'm building a Page Object Model layer with TypeScript strict mode enabled and running into issues typing things…
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How do you parallelise 1000+ tests to run in under 10 minutes in CI?Our test suite: 1200 Playwright tests, currently runs serially in ~55 minutes. Target: under 10 minutes for the PR…
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Is test.step() worth using in Playwright? What does it actually give you?I see test.step() mentioned in Playwright docs but I'm not clear on when it's worth the extra nesting. From what I…
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How do you validate AI-generated test code before committing it?I've started using AI to generate first-pass test code. The problem: I've caught several subtle bugs in AI-generated…
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Flaky test quarantine in CI — auto-retry, dedicated quarantine job, or just fix them?Our flake rate is ~4% per test in CI (down from 9% after a big cleanup push). With 800 tests that means ~32 flaky…
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