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New research: AI struggles to handle open-source test maintenance challenges(rainforestqa.com)
1 points by franciscassel 2y ago|0 comments
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by franciscassel 2y ago
Taken from the same blog: "Roughly, RAG is runtime prompt engineering where you build a system to dynamically add relevant things to your prompt before you ask the agent for an answer."
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Surprise, your data warehouse can RAG(rainforestqa.com)
6 points by franciscassel 2y ago|1 comments
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by franciscassel 2y ago
Have you considered a land-and-expand rollout, where you focus on getting an active community going in one or two cities before you expand? Otherwise, folks from underserved cities (which will be most of them) will be disappointed when they
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by franciscassel 3y ago
Spoilers: "But the impact has actually been fantastic. Some highlights: - ~$1m of sales pipeline generated in 3 weeks, ~$100k already closed - ~10% of the free customers converted to paid - ~50% of the paying customers converted to the
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Rainforest QA CEO: What happened when we killed freemium(twitter.com)
11 points by franciscassel 3y ago|3 comments
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by franciscassel 4y ago
Following the logic in the article: it's not actually a good outcome for the business when "Your QA people are the only ones charged with being an organizational conscience on the behalf of your users." To your earlier point,
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by franciscassel 4y ago
For sure. For me, the best (worst) sign of 'not proactive enough' re: quality is too many embarrassments and/or hotfixes happening.
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Think twice before hiring QA for your startup(rainforestqa.com)
20 points by franciscassel 4y ago|9 comments
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by franciscassel 5y ago
In my experience, many orgs that work with Selenium and its derivatives have described that (coded) approach as flaky / brittle (i.e., fragile). Of course, until automation gets to be as clever of humans, any test automation approach
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by franciscassel 5y ago
Totally agree that automation will never fully replace the value of human-powered testing. (Though it is great for the rote regression-testing stuff. The "drudgery", as you put it.) Isn't the problem with relying too much on
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by franciscassel 5y ago
Yeah, the good ones really care about the product experience and customer outcomes, so this makes a lot of sense to me. But what do you mean?
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by franciscassel 5y ago
When I was a PM, I was lucky to have a big, talented QA team, but I still knew I'd have to do a "smoke test" myself after every major feature release. I cared the most, and I knew the most about the intricacies of the produ
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by franciscassel 5y ago
I've been on teams where the "siloed" QA model seemed to work pretty well -- we seemed to find a decent balance between test coverage and frequency of releases. But this was at a cash-rich startup that had lots of money to sp
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Alternatives I've seen mentioned on Twitter threads today: https://mercury.com/ https://www.brex.com/
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Promising alternatives I've seen mentioned on Twitter: https://www.brex.com/ https://mercury.com/
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by franciscassel 6y ago
The most useful insights come from the user reviews shared to those sites. You just have to remember that they're just like any other online review: you mostly hear from the very happy or very unhappy customers OR the ones that got ask
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Very kind!
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Thank you! Glad it was compelling.
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Excellent compliment, thank you.
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it.
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by franciscassel 6y ago
ahrefs. The full methodology is described in the article.
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by franciscassel 6y ago
That's a good point. I'll clarify this in the post.
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Haha!
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Fantastic, I'm glad to hear the insights in the piece were helpful to you, Jonathan.
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Hey, Greg, I started following your work this year -- good to see you. Funny enough, I know that Bitrix alternatives page, because they're a competitor of one of my clients in the workflow automation space. :) -Mike
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Sometimes there's no good reason to leave pricing off the site. But there are some legit reasons. E.g., every sale is custom-priced based on more than a few different variables.
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by franciscassel 6y ago
Fair point! But as a business, it'd be negligent not to make your 'why' case, given that your consumers are looking for it. Hopefully the business does it in a way that's transparent and forthright. I'm a big fan of
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by franciscassel 6y ago
I appreciate it -- glad you got something out of it. I haven't run into this a lot with my clients -- they've generally been on-board with the idea of creating vs./alternatives content -- but some folks do have that mental bl
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The SaaS website content you need to close sales(mikesonders.com)
393 points by franciscassel 6y ago|53 comments

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