Paul Grizzaffi's blog about being responsible with test automation, testing, AI, and other software things
A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client, or something like that. Physician, heal thyself, again, or something like that. So, what of an entity that creates and then tests their/its creation? In physics, an echo is a sound that is reflected from a surface; it’s also that annoying thing that happens […]
Hello everyone! Happy Holidays and an early Happy New Year! Many of you have commented on and asked about where the new content is and why I’m not writing more. The answer to that is simple: I’ve not had the time. Career changes over the last few years have left me with less time than […]
The world recently saw the passing of Ozzy Osbourne. Those of you who know me know that Ozzy was at the top of my list of metal performers. I’ll miss knowing that he could show up on another artist’s record or release a new album. That said, on his “first final album”, No More Tears, […]
Hello! It’s been a long time since I’ve rock-n-roll, er, I mean, written. For the past few months, I’ve been mostly heads-down working for multiple clients, helping to deliver quality software both as a strategist and a practitioner. I’ve had some interesting challenges to solve, and I’d like to share how we helped solve one […]
Many years ago, back when I worked for a telecom company, we were building what we called a test automation platform. It was more than what we currently call a test tool; it was a system in which we could write and execute concurrent test scripts across multiple telephony interfaces. It was extraordinarily interesting, but […]
Im pretty sure we’ve all heard about the “global IT outage” from last week. Most of us were affected by it, either directly or indirectly. I couldn’t use the ATM and my wife’s flight was delayed for a couple of hours; these were mere inconveniences compared to the impacts that others felt. This CrowdStrike incident […]
Of course not! Our automation should always run in seconds, or maybe “ones of minutes”. Right? Right? Insert that meme of Padme and Anakin in the meadow. A duration of 45 minutes is clearly an anti-pattern and always a bad idea, right? Y’all know what’s going to happen when I ask absolute questions like that, […]
“Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.” Most of us nerds (and non-nerds alike) have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Bridge of Death scene is one of the most quoted and paraphrased. The three-question concept (not to be confused […]
As you might imagine, I get a lot of test automation tool emails. A LOT. I open pretty much all of them and skim them. If something catches my interest, either positively or negatively, I read it in depth. I speculate that some, if not most, of y’all do something similar. The messages that I […]
Anecdotally, the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” means acquiring additional “things” or behaving in a specific way because your friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. all have those things or behave that way. The thought is that if you don’t want to be viewed as lesser than those people, you need to at least maintain parity […]