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Which tool is your primary choice for API testing?What do you reach for first when writing API tests?
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ISTQB certification in 2026 — is it worth the time and money for career advancement?I'm considering ISTQB Foundation and Advanced (Test Automation Engineer) certifications. Combined cost with study…
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BDD with Cucumber and Gherkin — genuine value or just an abstraction layer nobody asked for?My new company uses Cucumber for all E2E tests. Feature files are written in Gherkin, step definitions in Java. After 2…
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Why our team chose to stay with Selenium instead of migrating — and we do not regret itEvery few months someone on our team brings up migrating to Playwright. We've evaluated it twice now and decided to…
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Which CI/CD platform runs your test suite?What CI system are you running your automated tests on in 2026?
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How many automated tests does your team currently maintain?Curious about the scale of test suites across the community.
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What is your actual test pyramid ratio in practice — unit, integration, E2E?The classic answer is 70% unit / 20% integration / 10% E2E. But I've never worked on a team that actually hits that…
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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 balance test coverage percentage targets vs meaningful test quality?Our engineering director wants 80% code coverage enforced in CI. I understand the intent but I'm worried about…
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Have you migrated away from Selenium? What did you move to?Curious where the community stands on Selenium in 2026. Have you moved on, and if so where?
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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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WireMock vs MockServer vs custom mock — what we tried and what we keptWe needed to mock 3 external APIs for our integration test suite. Tried three approaches over 6 months: WireMock -…
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Playwright trace viewer completely changed how I debug failing CI testsBefore trace viewer, debugging a CI failure meant adding console.log, pushing, waiting 8 minutes for CI, repeat.…
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What is your systematic approach when a test passes locally but fails in CI?This is the most frustrating debugging scenario I encounter regularly. Test passes 100% locally, fails 30–80% in CI. My…
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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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Has your team shifted performance testing left (earlier in the dev cycle)?Performance testing traditionally happens late. Where does your team do it?
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k6 vs JMeter vs Gatling in 2026 — which would you choose for a new project?Starting a new performance testing initiative. Our stack: Node.js microservices, REST APIs, ~50k requests/day in…
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How I structure conftest.py files across a large monorepo — the pattern that worksAfter three rewrites, here's the conftest.py structure that finally works for our monorepo (4 services, ~800 tests):…
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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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Which pytest plugins are essential in your test stack?Curious what the community considers must-have pytest plugins. Pick the ones you cannot live without.
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