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I remember this from a gig I did a while ago. Customer wanted to establish their own automated QA and thought Robot Framework was a good fit, because the langua
by alex_suzuki 4y ago
I remember this from a gig I did a while ago. Customer wanted to establish their own automated QA and thought Robot Framework was a good fit, because the language „looks easy“. The goal was to enable IT personnel that lacked a technical background, with no programming experience, to write tests.
I was sceptical from the start, and was eventually proven right (I did not enjoy this, it created more not-so-enjoyable work for me).
Test code was flaky to the point of being useless, and contained alot of redundancy.
IMHO it is really hard to write good tests without having a bit of a „programmers mindset“.
- antman 4y ago"IT personnel that lacked a technical background" : Really interested on what the recruitment team was thinking!
- alex_suzuki 4y agoThink support staff, PMs, etc.
- majkinetor 4y agoExactly. You need devs to write good tests in general.