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dhpe

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About dhpe

Software developer & entrepreneur, founder of Usetrace.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhpe

https://usetrace.com

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    Comment #48915767

    There's discussion whether this is a vuln. While some responsibility should be on the user to already having downloaded a malicious binary, I think it's poor default behavior from …

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    Comment #46578717

    An Android app for CORE (YC S23) to make it as easy as possible to capture data to Core on-the-go. Voice-based UI, also quickly type in memories, and later retrieve by asking. http…

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    Comment #46335209

    I have programmed 30K+ hours. Do LLMs make bad code: yes all the time (at the moment zero clue about good architecture). Are they still useful: yes, extremely so. The secret sauce …

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    Comment #14788069

    http://www.omnireceipt.com/

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    Comment #14783826

    I need to upload invoices every month from all ~20 SaaS products I subscribe to an accounting software. Most of the invoices can be just redirected from email to another SaaS that …

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    Comment #13783954

    - Test cases should be designed to allow parallel execution (they should not interfere with each other) - Do not use sleep() for synchronisation - use explicit waits (e.g. wait unt…

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    Comment #13630206

    Really nice to have a generic functional interface to S3. Thanks.

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    Comment #13590665

    Thanks, good points. We have used ngrok for testing localhost. We actually wrote a helpful article on it. This is useful info regardless of the testing tool, so pasting it here: ht…

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    Comment #13590641

    Thanks for the feedback. We have come quite far since last year. For example, now you can record html5 drag and drop events. Give it a try, we'd love to hear if there's a webpage w…

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    Comment #13589644

    Having developed a test recorder, I found out that the best solution was to make mousehover an explicit action (the same as in webdriver). Better to have a robust test than try to …

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    Comment #13589587

    Since this thread hits my expertise... We have developed Usetrace ( https://usetrace.com ) for a few years targeting teams that want non-techies to automate GUI testing. (Disclaime…

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    Comment #8748255

    Thanks, this is useful.

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    Comment #8453832

    My startup http://usetrace.com is a web monitoring (+regression testing) tool with the "monitor for your users" philosophy mentioned in Rob's article. Monitoring is done on the app…

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    Comment #7661392

    Some improvements made. Going to be better!

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    Comment #7649645

    You can add coded steps when you need advanced features. You'll have javascript in your site's context available.

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    Comment #7648986

    We're currently providing a way to reuse the beginning of trace in other traces. Most traces start with logging in to the app, so you can create the login trace, and share it to al…

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    Comment #7648967

    Hi, thanks for the awesome feedback! About pricing, you can test all features for free. If you like it and continue to use it, you can subscribe to one of our plans. Copy pasting i…

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    Comment #7648895

    Most of the teams do not have required skills for scripted test automation. Even the teams that do have the skills struggle to have time for testing. Personally after doing program…

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    Comment #7648316

    1. Just click "Run Trace" to verify the automation works. 2. Yes, from Dashboard it's currently FF&Chrome only, but via API you can include IEs. I can help you to get started (mail…

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    Comment #7648179

    Thanks! We're going to improve the landingpage. Meanwhile, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQqAr4jJ9Xw - signing up is also free.