Gregory's ServerFor websites this is forms and links. For desktop applications this is buttons and windows and keyboards.
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 And that's really a shame. Computers should be used to automate things. We spend way too much time dealing with shitty sites and shitty programs because we have no choice and think we can't automate them away. well, that's wrong. We can absolutely automate them, it just takes a little more work and some different strategies I think of this as a short term vs long term thinking sort of problem. Like, a lot of programmers are stuck in the "should" part of thinking about programs and sites. Yes, the program SHOULD be open source, so you can just fix the UI. Yes, the website SHOULD have an extensive API so you can easily automate it. and if you want to automate it today, your only options are to be adversarial about it. It's the enemy, you pretend to be a human user and automate the interactions with the app/site. It's the only way. |
And I think (in part because it's affiliated with Bad Actors like spammers), a lot of programmers don't consider all their options in these areas.