Sam Orbison
Windows. The only person here who enjoys PowerShell.
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Example threads. These questions and answers were written by the SDODS team to document real problems and how to fix them. The people named are illustrative, not real users. Questions asked on this site are marked new.
Should I commit the suggested locator from a heal log, or go and find out why?
Our log has been telling us this for a fortnight: I cannot tell whether "update the page object" means "paste this in" or "go and find out why". The suggestion is obviously…
asked by Sam Orbison@visual is green locally and reported flaky on CI — attempt 1 fails, attempt 2 passes
Same commit, same command, two machines. On my laptop: Green, every time. On the CI job (Ubuntu runner, project has retries: { ci: 2 }) the scenario is reported flaky. Attempt 1:…
asked by Sam OrbisonCan one HAR recording cover staging and prod, or is it per environment?
We have three environments that serve identical payloads. Re-recording the same traffic three times feels silly. sdods har list prints an env column so I assume the answer is no,…
asked by Sam Orbison"@user:admin is not a declared role (standard, locked_out)" — where is that list?
Added an admin-only scenario: We do have an admin account in the users CSV, with role set to admin. So why does lint not see it?
asked by Sam OrbisonInstaller says "This is Windows" when I run it in Git Bash — what should I use instead?
I copied the macOS/Linux one-liner into Git Bash because that is where I live on this machine. It refuses immediately: I do have WSL. Which one is actually the right answer if I…
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Example threads. These questions and answers were written by the SDODS team to document real problems and how to fix them. The people named are illustrative, not real users. Questions asked on this site are marked new.
Windows protected your PC — how do I get past SmartScreen on the installer?
Downloaded the Windows installer and SmartScreen blocks it with the blue dialog. There is no obvious way to continue — only a Don't run button. Two questions really: how do I…
asked by Renata Kohlwinget install SDODS.SDODS says no package found — is the ID wrong?
The docs table lists it, so I ran it: winget search sdods finds nothing either. Have I got the identifier wrong, or is my winget source stale?
asked by Tanvi BhattScoop installed SDODS into Program Files instead of the Scoop apps directory
I maintain an internal bucket and I copied the SDODS manifest as a starting point for another app. Mine keeps landing in the default install directory instead of the one Scoop…
asked by Owen Brackleyscoop install sdods gave me the app, not the sdods command — where is the CLI on Windows?
Added the bucket and installed: I now have a desktop application. What I wanted was sdods run in a terminal. Did I pick the wrong package name?
asked by Fiona McAllisterPowerShell installer ignores every option I pass it
I want the installer to also scaffold a workspace, so I tried adding the parameter to the one-liner: PowerShell does not like that, and every variation I have tried either errors…
asked by Hsu Wei-linbrowsers: [chromium] in envs/local.yaml does nothing and raises no error
Wanted local runs on chromium only while staging keeps all three, so I put this in envs/local.yaml: No error. sdods run -p demo-shop -e local -l ui --list still lists chromium,…
asked by Kostya PetrovNode v20 is too old — can the installer sort that out itself?
Our runner image is pinned to an older Node and I do not own that image. Install stops here: Is there a way to get a new enough Node without rebuilding the image or asking the…
asked by Nikhil SaneWhat writes error-context.md next to a failure, and can I use it?
Poking through a failed run I found this: The markdown file starts with the headings Instructions, Test info, Error details and Page snapshot, and the page snapshot is a full…
asked by Fiona McAllisterTeam-wide setup for keeping credentials out of the repo — what actually works day to day?
We are onboarding six more testers and the current answer is "ask someone in chat for the staging password". I would like to write down one way of doing this that survives…
asked by Anouk de Vries-t @regression,@mock ran more scenarios, not fewer
I wanted the regression scenarios that are mocked, so I asked for both tags: It ran considerably more than either tag has on its own. I expected a comma to mean "and". What does…
asked by Gio CastellanoValue in .env.staging is ignored, an old exported variable keeps winning
Rotated a credential. projects/demo-shop/.env.staging has the new one: Runs still authenticate with the old value. --explain --show-secrets confirms the old one is in there.…
asked by Gio CastellanoDataset "users" has 3 row(s); row 5 does not exist (0-based) — is the header counted?
I wrote Given I load dataset "users" row 5 because the account I want is on line 5 of the spreadsheet. Got: Three rows? The file has four lines. And when I tried row 1 earlier it…
asked by Gio Castellano