Video Highlights from RST Online Classes

RST Peer Advisor Marius Francu has created a YouTube playlist of insights from the online RST Explored and RST Applied classes. For those who haven’t yet taken a class, these offer a little taste of some of the lessons that you might learn. For those who have taken the class, they can be helpful reminders of some of the important points.

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Illustrating Pareto Principle in Automation in Testing

What I was showing Jon is a simple mathematical argument that it is better to "automate" in testing by focusing on "biggest bang for the buck" rather than "low hanging ...fruit" (low cost first) or "Biggest win" (high value first). You should consider cost vs. value on a case-by-case basis, which will give you the so-called Pareto solution (20/80).

However, on a different level, I was showing him the difference between doing a spreadsheet "manually" vs. using Co-pilot. Note that, though Co-pilot did okay at the task, we stumbled into a big bug-- a bug that I suspect Microsoft doesn't know about because this is the sort of thing that is difficult to automate...

The bug was that when we set Co-pilot to performing a task, then navigated away to another Excel window and then navigated back, we found it not only stopped performing that task, but lost all of the context and transcript for everything that cam before. Damn it, Microsoft! Then, when we tried to ask Co-pilot about saving the history, we found that there is no automatic or in-built way to save the history automatically. WHY DO AI VENDORS THINK WE DON"T EVER WANT TO LOOK BACK AT HOW THE WORK WAS DONE?Show More