That's interesting. The most I had to do with SikuliX recently is its Robot Framework library, which is very neat way of both keeping the tech somewhat alive and making it easier to write the scripts.
https://istqb-glossary.page - I got frustrated with the official ISTQB glossary page, so I made my own. Scraped their data via (terrible, terrible) search API, published it all as a hugo page. Nothing spectacular, but it serves a purpose. You can link to a specific term with relative ease, see available translations and synonyms, and if I come around to adding extra content (like youtube videos or articles explaining concept - see https://istqb-glossary.page/boundary-value-analysis/), then the page will morph into place for learning more about testing concepts - the glossary itself might be a little... dry.
All contributions are welcome, however we're working 2 fulltime jobs and care for a 3 yo in lockdown, so time to work on this project is a luxury.
Nice Project sp. z o.o. / Software Developer in Test (SDET) / Wrocław, Poland / Full-Time onsite
We (Nice Project sp. z o.o. - http://niceproject.eu) are currently building a team of test automation specialist to help our german customers with their automation needs.
Please note, that this is not a classical software tester position: the tests are currently mostly performed on customer's side, and your job will be to aid and guide the efforts related to more technical aspects of both functional and load/performance testing.
What will you be doing at this position:
- Execute, analyze and report already available performance test of complex, modular application for print shops.
- Continue automation (in Python) of any not yet automated test steps
- Be involved in determining the right direction for ongoing load testing efforts, and creation of completely new load testing scenarios
Additional objectives that may be relevant to future activities:
- Help with automation efforts using Ranorex, Robot Framework and/or Selenium based solutions
- Be involved in testing activities in projects undertaken by Nice Project
We are looking to hire 2 team members on medium to senior level.
English language is required (duh), German language is required on at least reading comprehension level.
What else:
- Small team (we're just getting started) where your voice will be heard
- Interesting projects in a complex domain
- Flexible working hours, home office, part-time models
- Domain specific trainings
- We plan to provide further language lessons for our team members to improve their German language even more
Thanks for asking. I am fine. I've recently changed jobs and now I work from home with occasional travel - and even though it's strenuous, it's much more comfortable. I have flexible hours, fixed pay every month, paid vacations (oh thank gods yes). My kid is gradually getting more social with us (he's almost 3), and spending time with him brings us great joy. We're all healthy, we invest time into our relationship, we do our best to sleep much, exercise, eat well, and it seems to be paying off, which is great, because this time last year we were getting ready to move across border, and soon before the move, we've had a serious health crisis (my wife was hospitalized for 10 day, and got out exactly on the day of the move).
What could be better? Well plenty, of course.
We could be saving money for our own place faster. But we partially use it to enjoy day to day and treat ourselves. I consider it money well spent, regardless of my wife's guilt feeling.
We could be spending even more time together. But this is mostly because my wife is currently learning python programming and software testing in order to get back to job hunt. It was a conscious decisions, and her weekend school ends in a couple of weeks anyway.
We could be spending more time with our friends. But we're all busy people, and we try to be understanding that it's difficult to find good timeslots.
So, it's all temporary hurdles, not really hardships.
God, the many times I had told them so months before difficult situations arrived, just to be swiftly ignored by business because some devs didn't want to bother, and wanted to get to more shiny and fancy and interesting problems.
Ha! My boy (almost 3) may be playing with his legos for whole afternoon, but the moment I peek in the general direction of my laptop, he wants to bang on the keyboard. Not any keyboard (tried that), but my keyboard specifically.
And when it comes to "it depends on the kid", oh dear. I try to practice stoicism whenever I remember about it, and logically I try to remember that I should be grateful for his fussiness and rebelliousness, since they give me occasions to practice my stoicism. But it sure does feel a bit like stockholm syndrome sometimes.
OK, so the main takeaway for me for example would be that if I want write lambdas in Go (because it's awesome), then GCP would be better choice for me.
But anyway, I'm not too current when it comes to lambdas. Are they compiled everytime when cold started, or is a compiled binary stored in some sort of image?
This reminds me of an old (communist-old) polish joke:
Why are all the houses in the village of Wąchock painted white? Because the mayor thereof heard that "no bomb shall ever fall on a white house"
There were a lot more, including: why are all the houses in Wąchock round? Because the fortuneteller told mayor that he'll get slapped in the face behind the corner.
Oh, fun times. But yes, it's amazingly decandent how all those companies build up their campuses. I have comparison with a german campus in Hamburg, where the feel that I got was more of a tired and forced one, even with all the new developments and efforts to keep it up to date.
I will chip in as a happy user of PlantText[1]. It allows you to edit PlantUML diagrams, renders them, and you can either download them as PNGs, SVG, or ASCII. I'm pretty sure you can also directly link to an image, although I'm not sure about ToS, so don't do it without fact-checking. Oh, and it saves your content locally.