Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Real World Applications

Just a quick side note.. I was talking to a family friend about my internship this week and little did I know that the exact coding I am using (known as selenium webdriver) is actually very very useful in every field, from medicine to engineering. The code simulates user actions on a browser such as Cbrome for different purposes, usually just to make sure everything runs as planned.
So to establish some ethos, this family friend has a Masters degree in sociology but has studied all over the world and after making enough money he decided to start a software company that he hopes can revolutionize the home-nursing industry. As a employer, he told me that good scripters get paid up to $50/hr to write Selenium webdriver code (if it was a full time job that would be approximately 140k/yr!)!
Now thats some added motivation to get this down pat!

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  1. That's really cool! How is this code used in these fields such as medicine?

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    1. It's quite simple, actually.

      + Marc Andreson's 2011 observation remains true: Software is eating the world (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460)

      + Increasingly software is delivered as a service (SAAS) and the name of the game is continuous deployment, continuous delivery (http://www.cio.com/article/2376749/cloud-computing/software-is-eating-the-world-and-it-could-eat-your-business.html). And, as we all know, almost all software is delivered via the browser

      + At the heart of continuous deployment is automated testing and Selenium dominates browser automation

      --> Selenium rocks and is tremendously useful to learn.

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