Stoic Philosophy and Automation Testing
summary
Connects stoic focus on controllables to concrete test choices: use Selenium or visual testing (Percy, Applitools) for UI, Karate and Postman for APIs, CI with Jenkins. Demonstrates a ReportPortal integration that uses ML to auto-classify failures so 10 failures yesterday and 12 today require analyzing only 2 new ones, and a run of 100 failures often collapses to 3–4 root causes once stack traces are grouped. Recommends morning 20–30 minute practice and shows the integration reduces triage time.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26Stoicism basics
- 4:57Control and choice
- 7:13Trust by verify
- 9:00Believe in success
- 11:08Focus on present
- 13:40Pretend today is last
- 16:11What you leave behind
- 18:00Dark days and patterns
- 20:09Outcomes are neutral
- 22:20Winter training
- 25:10Life like wrestling
- 26:56Key takeaways
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