Ask Me Anything: All Things Testing Tools

This AMA is hosted by Gwen Diagram and our question answer is Sonali Das.

Sonali answers the following questions in this AMA:

• What kind of open sources tool do you use to create low code / codeless tools?
• If you could build the ultimate testing tool, what would that tool do?
• What are some pain points / limitations when using codeless automatoin tools?
• Do you ever find that manual / exploratory testing is more practical in certiain moments? e.g. features being new / unstable, complexity, important edge cases?
• What kind of automated testing do you find most satisfying?
• Do you find that codeless automation tools can be a way to open up outside of the QA team, or can otherwise be used to improve cross-team relationships?
• Do you have a written set of standards for your automation team? Do you do code reviews?
• What advice would you give someone looking to introduce automated tests to their app who is starting from scratch?
• How do you work with table validation in codeless approach?
• What techiniques do you recommend for managing and creating test data?
• Do you like using Cucumber BDD and stuff like that, or see it as more of a overhead?
• How do you train your team members on the tools you build?
• What you mix and match tools in your recipes, how do you keep all those libraries up to date?
• What's the biggest challenge you've faced in your tool journey?
• I'm also curious about training, what makes training on a new tool easy for everyone involved?
• What technical books are you currently reading, if any?