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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)
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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends entirely what tests you're automating. Java codebase? Probably Java tests too. Anything web? Tests will be JS too, etc.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Web testing is also done in python. Selenium has support in all major Python test frameworks. I've done SE-only tests in Robot, hybrid SE/Python using BDD with Behave, etc.

Unless I'm testing a language-specific API, I'm probably going to use Python...

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing that's because you're a python developer though. If you're a frontend developer who knows JS then why wouldn't you use that for your tests? (Apart from the fact that JS is horrible, but you've already accepted that suffering by becoming a web dev)

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I'm a test automation developer, I'm not necessarily bound by the platform that the application is written in unless I'm writing white-box tests.