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Our Playwright suite has 200+ tests and login takes 3–4 seconds each time. Running everything serially we're losing ~15…
I have a senior SDET interview at a product company (Series C, ~200 engineers) in 3 weeks. I've done 2 SDET interviews…
We have a 1,200-test suite built over 4 years. Good test coverage, but: - No documentation of test strategy or…
I'm writing a test for an admin action that should be visible to admins but hidden from regular users. The test needs…
Most AI test generation demos show the happy path: given a function, generate a test skeleton. I've seen this work OK.…
File uploads work fine locally (macOS) but fail intermittently in our Linux CI containers. We're using…
I'm based in Southeast Asia and targeting remote SDET roles at US/European companies. The job market feels opaque.…
I need to test that a CSV export button downloads the correct file with the right data. Our app generates the file…
Our auth tokens expire after 1 hour. Most CI runs complete in 30–40 minutes so it's fine, but nightly full-suite runs…
Our product has a few LLM-powered features (a summarisation tool, a smart search). I'm trying to figure out how to test…
Playwright now supports component testing (React/Vue/Svelte) which blurs the line with E2E tests. In practice I'm…
I'm testing a FastAPI application with pytest-asyncio and httpx.AsyncClient and hitting a few rough edges. Issues I've…
I have a FastAPI service with a well-maintained OpenAPI spec (auto-generated by FastAPI). I want to generate a…
I'm building a Page Object Model layer with TypeScript strict mode enabled and running into issues typing things…
Our test suite: 1200 Playwright tests, currently runs serially in ~55 minutes. Target: under 10 minutes for the PR…
I see test.step() mentioned in Playwright docs but I'm not clear on when it's worth the extra nesting. From what I…
I've started using AI to generate first-pass test code. The problem: I've caught several subtle bugs in AI-generated…
Our flake rate is ~4% per test in CI (down from 9% after a big cleanup push). With 800 tests that means ~32 flaky…
We integrate with: Stripe (payments), SendGrid (email), Twilio (SMS), and Segment (analytics). Each has a sandbox/test…
We need to parallelise a 600-test pytest suite. Current serial runtime is ~22 minutes, target is under 8 minutes. I've…
