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We need to parallelise a 600-test pytest suite. Current serial runtime is ~22 minutes, target is under 8 minutes. I've…
REST API testing feels natural with pytest + requests, but I'm not sure how to apply the same discipline to GraphQL.…
The ecosystem moves fast — new Playwright releases, pytest plugins, AI testing tools, framework comparisons. I feel…
We have a real-time dashboard that uses WebSockets and I'm struggling to write reliable tests for it. The main…
Our test suite hits a third-party API (Stripe sandbox) and we occasionally get 429s in CI, causing random test…
This is the most frustrating debugging scenario I encounter regularly. Test passes 100% locally, fails 30–80% in CI. My…
Our API test suite uses a real PostgreSQL database (Docker, spun up in CI). Each test creates data and we need…
Before trace viewer, debugging a CI failure meant adding console.log, pushing, waiting 8 minutes for CI, repeat.…
We have several user flows triggered by emails: registration confirmation, password reset, order confirmation. I need…
StaleElementReferenceException is the bane of our Selenium suite. We get maybe 20–30 per CI run across 800 tests,…
We want to add k6 performance tests to our CI pipeline but our PR pipeline is already 12 minutes and I don't want to…
We had a bug where a function-scoped test was accidentally using a session-scoped fixture that mutated shared state.…
We want to add test result notifications to our Slack channel after each CI run. Before I build this out I want to know…
Test code reviews on my team are inconsistent. Some reviewers are rigorous (comment on everything), some rubber-stamp…
I had an idea: take our flaky test history (test name, failure messages, stack traces, timestamps) and feed it to an…
After three rewrites, here's the conftest.py structure that finally works for our monorepo (4 services, ~800 tests):…
I need to validate API response structures in pytest tests. Three paths I see: 1. jsonschema — explicit, dict-based…
My company is adding basic security testing requirements. Leadership wants SDETs to own it since we already own…
I see job descriptions asking for Python OR Java OR JavaScript AND sometimes all three. I'm trying to figure out what I…
I'm transitioning into an SDET role and trying to decide whether to build depth in Python or Java for Selenium.…
