Circle CI has released a new feature to rerun only failed tests. Basically, makes it easier to handle and rerun flaky tests. "yey"

https://circleci.com/docs/rerun-failed-tests/

"The head of the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly claimed in recent interviews that no scientists have been laid off at his agency, but one of the scientists in a food safety lab shuttered by the FDA's cuts says he is either 'blatantly lying' or 'out of touch.""

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-head-falsely-claims-no-scientists-laid-off-as-agency-shutters-food-safety-labs/

#Testing #training: Challenge yourself by continuing your professional development with AST.
https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org/bbst-black-box-software-testing-courses/foundations/

Do you maintain or contribute to a #Python package that includes a C extension? Would you like to run a fuzzer against it?

If so, let me know and I will run it, or help you to get it running.

The fuzzer is #fusil, which generates random code calling into your functions and methods. It's useful to check for crashes on invalid inputs or unexpected call patterns.

It has found about 50 crashes in #CPython, 20 in #PyPy, 6 in #Numpy etc.

#fuzzing #fuzzer #testing
See here:
https://github.com/devdanzin/fusil/issues/37

https://www.europesays.com/uk/12792/ Sentynl Therapeutics Explains Why Screening Newborns for Rare Disease Matters #Ascend #AscendBrandedContentUSATODAY #Branded #Content #Disorders #Genetic #GeneticDisorders #GeneticTesting #Genetics #Literature #medical #MedicalLiteratureU0026Resources #Neutral #News #Overall #OverallNeutral #Pediatrics #Resources #Science #Testing #TODAY #u0026 #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA

Welcome to this month's meetup on Tuesday 15th April 2025 at Reaktor!

Talks:

@maaretp - Exploratory Unit Testing with and for GenAI

Toni Vanhala - Stable and Observable: Celery Setup Essentials for SQL Pipelines

And the famous HelPy quiz!

https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/307043355/

See you there!

OpenBSD -current has moved to version 7.7 https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250330230026 #openbsd #current #development #security #freesoftware #libresoftware #testing

mind the WCAG automation gap

"Disclaimer: this content was partially produced via automation FTW! Don’t fear the AI future or the reaper."

#a11y #WCAG #testing #automation #ai

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/03/27/mind-the-wcag-automation-gap/

Estuve #Testing la app #TRIfA en #Android, pero mi expectativa/experiencia no fue positiva, ya que no me permitió importar mi cuenta.
Me sigo quedando con #aTox como alternativa.

https://f-droid.org/packages/ltd.evilcorp.atox

Por si se animan a probar o ya usan #tox, mi ID: 5E714443388043DB47CF2F9A1661EBACD9B449A59940DF7A5B6072DD47BE8467237E54AABF6A

Para darle mas movimiento a este mensajero instantáneo.

Over the years I have encountered my share of memorable problems. They were remarkably complex, hard to debug, completely obvious in retrospect, or plain funny. Read the story of one of them on my blog:

https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2025/interesting-bugs-peculiar-intermittent-failure-in-testing-pipeline/

GitHub Actions now supports free-threaded Python!

I wrote up how to add it your workflows so you can start testing free-threaded Python 3.13 and 3.14 with either actions/setup-python or actions/setup-uv.

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/free-threaded-python-on-github-actions/

It seems like unit testing in Rust is difficult. I am looking into mockall and other mocking libraries, and I'm kind of turned off by all the macros I have to add to my code (and sometimes it even impacts the production code!) instead of being able to keep all test-related stuff in test modules. Also I don't want to use traits for everything—I'd rather not `dyn Trait` everywhere if I don't have to.

How do you effectively unit test in Rust when you have object dependencies?

Remember, #OpenBSD snapshots are now 7.7-beta, this is an excellent time to test - https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250302115123 (the most useful time to test for the upcoming release) #unix #libresoftware #freesoftware #bsd #development #security #testing

Met with a Finnish product company AutoExplore, and *if* they could have less simplistic thinking of exploratory testing, this could be something. What it looks like to me is ML on a webui element coverage concept, a walker optimizing for new, visual coverage representation and genAI/text for test data and results reporting.

I want to see success for Finnish startups in #testing space. Well, any space. :)

https://www.autoexplore.ai/

Every single day ... and not simply once per day...

"Was XX made this way specfically as terrible as possible so that I'll eventually give up and buy a YY?"

"Why does XX get worse with every single system update? Do they know anything about regression testing at all?"

"Do they only operate on the idiotic notion of 'Move Fast, Break Everything?' as if we were still in 2009 web2.0 and testing in production? Also, only lazy unimaginative chuds think that everything needs to be tested in production!"

"Do they really think everyone is an A or a B in their poorly conceived deployment process? 'well, some percentage of our users can suffer as long as we remain profitable by ZZ% so we definitely A/B test in production!'"

Smoke test your Django admin site

https://jmduke.com/posts/post/django-admin-changelist-test/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://jmduke.com/posts/post/django-admin-changelist-test/

So today is not going entirely to plan.
The set of additional #solarpanels I connected up refuse to give us juice. I tried to trace the fault and got jack shit info because my cheap ass 19 year old #multimeter is (confirmed by many tests now) not working any more. Its fuse is fine too, as is its #battery. It just displays zeros.
So add to the list of unexpected expenses and delays one new multimeter...

#mutualaid is our lifeline to #selfsufficiency so we can help others. Can you help us out with our expenses for...?

Multimeter: $7-8 at Harbor Freight
Crimp connectors: $?
Tyres: ~$1200 (Vulpibus)
Refilling fuel: ~$100
Refilling my overdraft: ~$500
Refilling my other overdraft: ~$250