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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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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What is needed to safely enable non-technical users to trigger automatic deployments?
The Background
I have a friend (no, really!). This friend works in the layer between IT and end users. Something like a business analyst or consultant. This friend does not have a technical or IT ...
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Automate clearing everything (database tables, log files, etc.) and starting from a fresh state during development?
The Issue
When I'm fixing a bug during web development projects, I often find myself cleaning out the existing (tainted) database records, clearing out log files, etc.
I do this so that I can start ...
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Initializing Cassandra schema
Recently I have started working on a project in which we are using Cassandra. It's a quite a new project, so we haven't decided how to initialize the schema.
We are using Docker and Kubernetes. I've ...
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How to "orchestrate" a multi-repository installation
Suppose I'm working on software to be installed on a Linux machine (not mine).
Say the software consists of applications the user might start independently; an application which will likely be started ...
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How to identify scope of end-to-end automation testing?
We are struggling in deciding scope of end-to-end tests. As per our understanding, we have automated the form exactly the way users interact with it. below are the steps user perform while submitting ...
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Partially Automated Migration of Monolith to MicroService
I am struggling to find some methods / concepts or even implementations of partially automated processes to split a monolith into microservices. Of cause I do not expect any solution that will make ...
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PowerShell performance when running Excel macros
I run on a daily basis a set of VBA-rich Excel files. Most of them include MS Office application cross-talk, but also employ third-party applications and MySQL. Due to the fact of running those files ...
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What approach can be used to automate SQL views generation?
Let's say I have to create tons of different SQL views. Having actual and target table DDLs, is it possible to programmatically automate view creation?
Example: I have 2 table DDLs:
CREATE TABLE ...
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How to automate data entry into a website
I'm asked to input 15 to 25 sets of data into a website once daily. It requires logging into the website, clicking a button, then selecting 2-7 checkboxes, clicking button, selecting up to 3 more ...
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How to convert from TDD scripts to BDD?
There are TDD automation scripts ready and running. TDD tests are written in granular level(class, functions, module) and BDD is written in Behavior level. Is it feasible convert this TDD script to ...
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Azure Key Vault vs Automation Account Variables for password storage
In Microsoft Azure one can store secret values like passwords in Azure Key Vault, but also as encrypted variables in Azure Automation (these ones are stored in an Azure-managed Key Vault behind the ...
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Does linting without auto-correction make sense?
In our Ruby on Rails projects we use a linter for our slim templates: slim-lint. It doesn't support any automatic fixes, not even the easiest ones. So I'd like to abandon it because I don't like to go ...
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Can/Should I make an automatic installation of new python libraries after a git pull?
Imagine the following situation:
I'm working on a python project, and I install the library antigravity with pip.
I add the function fly() which uses the library, and I commit and push the changes.
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Problem in creating a correct finite-state-machine for a given short text
I like to create a finite-state machine for the given text below. While solving this, I came accross with several problems I listed at the bottom. (This example is in terms of testing (where you later ...
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Authenticate Git Pulls on a Compromised Machine [closed]
I may have a tough one for you.
I have a machine in the wild that is and will probably continue to be compromised. The machine is owned by a user who will be unable to keep it secure.
I must have ...
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Is it possible to layer an API (REST, GraphQL, etc.) in front of data that is currently only accessible via an enterprise desktop GUI?
Currently, my thoughts are that GET requests would be feasible by using the concept of screen scraping combined with a cron job that runs at a set interval to scrape data from the GUI and sync to my ...
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Why only scripting languages for automating tasks? [closed]
To automate tasks, I have only heard of people using scripting languages.
Why don't people use compiled languages to automate tasks?
What can scripting languages do for automating tasks that ...
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What exactly caused the recent increase in automated testing?
Recently I've heard a lot about automating test is taking away manual jobs from the QA sector.
When I look at example of what it is about most of it is just running a sequence of functions over and ...
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How do I automate build-publish tasks for my web server?
I'm developing a node.js web server which will have built source code of server and client part at once. I mean, my web server is on the isomorphic level. this means editing source code of client part ...
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Auto test with random keys from dict with added values equal to a certain number
I have a list (23 items) of choices and I've transformed it into a dictionary in order to have a value for each choice.
I need to select 3 random choices from that dictionary each time I run the test ...
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What advantages do daily builds provide specifically over continuous builds in practice?
I have seen this question and do not believe this to be a duplicate What software models are appropriate for daily builds and continuous integration? .
I don't fully understand what advantage ...
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How do automation rules systems monitor for triggering actions?
I'm beginning to sketch out an automation rules system (e.g. letting users define "when X happens, do Y"), and I'm not sure how to monitor for triggering of those rules.
How do apps like, for ...
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Organizing Jenkins around SVN branches and deployment environments
Current setup
We currently have one Jenkins server that automates deployments for about 15 different Java web applications. Each application has three deployment environments on separate Linux boxes.
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Automated Hotfix Release with Semantic Versioning based off of Master Branch
I have a Python script that lives in my CI pipeline that is responsible for publishing branches and tags, publishing AAR's to our Maven Artifactory, uploading Javadoc, etc.
We used to follow a ...
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What are Workflows? And how do workflows eases work of the consumer? [closed]
With a little googling I could find workflows - which automates the business process - to meet some business needs. i.e.; All I could find is it is a piece of software which allows us to split the ...
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Where to run automation UI Tests - Build server or Test machine
We are having a set of selenium UI tests for our application. We are deploying the application in our test machines in our QA environment. We are using TFS 2015 for continuous integration and ...
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Would it be a bad idea to periodically run code formatters on a repository?
I'm thinking of creating a cron job that checks out code, runs code formatters on it, and if anything changed, commits the changes and pushes them back.
Most projects that use autoformatters put them ...
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Separations of concerns and dependency management in automation project
I'm working on an automation project in C# and it has 2 wrappers: DesktopAutomation and BrowsersAutomation. The first has a dependency on UIAutomation.dlls (access to the MS desktop elements) and the ...
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how to handle small change requests in the automated deployment process
I've setup a Gitlab server to manage several different Laravel Apps. I'm also able to configure the Gitlab CI to deploy the code to the development and production sites. Everything is kind of ...
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Adobe Acrobat folder level scripts
I am trying to find ínformation on how and where to write folder level scripts for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop. This is what I found from Adobe:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/...
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Using Selenium in a Web Service
Given that a local copy of the Selenium server and web drivers are required to run an automation test, i.e...
junit-4.10.jar
selenium-chrome-driver-2.0a4.jar
selenium-java-2.53.0-srcs.jar
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(Mobile automative testing) what exactly should I test for?
I have been writing some automation test scripts for a mobile application.
Thus far my tests are very basic, I am struggling to know exactly what to test.
An example of a test I have written:
Enter ...
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How do you adapt to changes to product specifications during development?
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Changes to product requirements/specifications during the development cycle are inevitable in a professional setting. In particular, I'm constantly dealing with changes to the specification ...
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Translation of a project from one language to another
If I wanted to turn a Java game into Lua, how could I do it? I'm thinking that you could have a program read the assembly language behind two programming languages, find the patterns, attach them to ...
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what is the utility to a REST API for SIP trunk's?
Why does Twilio offer:
Trunking REST API docs - Provision, configure, and modify SIP Trunks
and phone numbers with the REST API.
What are the top usages for this API? I appreciate that the process ...
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Best Practices for Automating Word Documents [closed]
I recently started at a company as a Automation Developer. My job is to
automate periodic reports (in Word) for all of our customers (~50), one for each.
Each report is slightly different, so I am ...
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Automation testing strategy with changing test cases
Say, for example, you have a program that sends a message to a server and that server validates it.
Note: The server validation process can have additional test cases due to it being implemented in ...
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Is it feasible to scale UI automation tests for load testing a web application?
We have UI automation test framework based on selenium web driver. We are in the early stages of building out load tests and are wondering if it is possible or recommended to use a browser based UI ...
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Speed up my delivery pipeline
I have a solution with many components with different deploy iter:
WebAPI backend (on IIS)
AngularJS frontend (on IIS)
A process manager (as Windows service)
A projection engine (as Windows service)
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How to have TFS automatically add certain tasks to new work items?
We use TFS at my workplace to manage our source code and track development.
Whenever we have a bug or work to do, we always have to do the following two tasks as a minimum:
Test the work, or decide ...
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Is there such a thing as the testing of automation?
I know that it's possible perform automation of testing. That is, take tests that are manual, and make them automatic.
However, is there such a thing as the testing of automation? That is, checking ...
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Automatic code correction, Good or Bad? [closed]
We have a large team comprising of developers, interns who write rails and backbone js code with large codebase.
We already have tools like JSCS and code climate to analyze the code and report ...
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How to monitor a long-running program programmatically
What I've currently got can be summed up with this pseudo code:
public static void Main(string[] args)
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var listOfObjects = Database.GetObjectsToUploadToOnlineService();
Parallel.ForEach(...
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