Questions tagged [automation]
Automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services.
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Multi processing or multi threading for pywinauto?
I am trying to automate an old GUI tool which requires filling in some data from a CSV and selecting appropriate tree item values based on it. I need to do this in multiple instances of the ...
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How to test the parts of an application that cannot run in a test harness
I'm working on a program that runs as a sort of plugin to the Windows UAC prompt (and other similarly difficult environments). The testing situation is a bit abysmal. End-to-end tests are not possible,...
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How to deal with outdated PowerShell and Azure PS in Azure Automation?
Azure Automation is a service for running scripts in the cloud, intended for the automation of administration tasks. While using it, I came across strangely outdated technologies being used under the ...
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How can I simplify deploying game server on hosting
I'm an online game developer.
I've written my game server using c++ on visual studio on windows 10 OS.
My hosting machine is run on CentOS 8.
Every time I make a change on server, I transfer all the ...
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Monitor newly released code without real traffic
As new code is released to production, without enough direct access to production execution environments I rely only on user traffic for monitoring. However not all use cases get covered via user ...
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How best to securely store a password for automated access (no user interaction)?
I'm facing the classic chicken/egg problem of where to store the keys to the kingdom.
I'm building an application for retail distribution that will rely on receiving a cadence of regularly-issued Let'...
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When writing automated tests for a website relying heavily on a template language, how do I gain confidence while maintaining fast feedback?
I'm working on a website that, for all intents and purposes, functions as a Choose Your Own Adventure book rendered as a single page app (SPA). Starting at the left, this is the user experience:
Each ...
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Separation of Concerns between test automation engineer and manual QA engineer? [closed]
I've been working as a test automation engineer for almost two years now. As expected, most of my job involves ensuring that the automation (primarily written in Python) is operational and reliable. ...
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How do you deploy and test a hotfix repo branch in different environments, Git Flow variants
I have done thru where do bug fixes go in git flow and the git flow and github flow pages.
There are scenarios many times when we need to show demo of new functionality and on same day fix issues of ...
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Does Jenkins essentially function like a package manager for your software product?
I'm a relatively new IT Ops guy in a software (web) development company. Recently I deployed a virtual machine on OpenStack, because some developer needs it, and then I installed their application (...
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Sole software engineer for a small company. How to handle deployment?
I'm the only software engineer for a small company and I want to make my deployment process more robust because I can't work away from my dedicated workstation with my current process. I only make ...
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Best way to keep development and testing in synch
We have 1 frontend developer and 2 backend developers and 1 QA. QA is responsible for writing the end-to-end tests using Cypress. FE developer writes the unit tests. Backend developers write the unit ...
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How do you test that an API wasn't broken by a change?
I have an infrastructure package that multiple projects depend upon. This package is supposed to be a stable API shared by those projects.
I want to know if a change made in the package has broken ...
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To lint on the client, or the server?
I am debating two strategies for setting up a linter for my team's github repository. Is strategy #1 standard practice, or not?
#1 - Set up a pre-commit hook that runs the linter
#2 - My team will ...
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The "real and effective" GIT CI/CD strategy
I've started in this new company a few weeks ago, this is the CTO CI strategy:
Current: Developer team has the repo prod/master and they merge everything into master (no branching strategy).
Once the ...
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