SylRob
sylvain63155194.bsky.social
SylRob
@sylvain63155194.bsky.social
Senior Web Engineer at Rakuten Japan
and mix it with destruct
October 30, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Yes, race conditions, elements that were reachable were not anymore, and some datetimes problems.

The difficulty is to be able to debug those, you have to guess.
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I may add one more then : )
About the tests, I'm working with both Cypress and Playwright/Vitest to do unit and integration tests.
The most frustrating parts is always with the tests are failing on headless mode but not on UI mode when you debug.
(make me want to smash my head in the wall)
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
are you asking about the automation or the tests ?
I'm guessing you want to focus on the "automation" part.
The biggest difficulty for me was the setup.
Being a Front end dev, I had to get into Jenkins/Docker/Bitbucket Webhook which was all new to me, took me a while and some help to get it working
October 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
4 / organization nightmare ?
in order to put pair programing practice in your team, I am guessing you need to organize the pair daily, try to mix evenly the pple of your team depending on their expertise and seniority, etc... and for me this also looks quite heavy TBH
February 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
3 / you need a "trusted team" :
I don't like the word "trust" here but it mean that you have a team with at least enough senior dev to pair with junior.
If the idea is to review each other or create reliable tests with each feature, can you really trust 2 junior pairing ?...
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
2 / You must deal with different profile of programmers :
mixing dev that want to start coding first and fix the errors with dev that wants to spend the first hours reading the docs. This can create frustration and conflicts
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
great video.
But you only scratch what I consider blockers for Pair Prog.

1 / You need your team to have pple skills :
We are talking of 2h to full days of pair with someone on your back, it can be intimidating or exhausting.
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
definitely agree !
February 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
this was really missing from React aria.
I'm looking forward to try it, thanks for all the effort
January 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
this will be really helpful as I was making my own utils function to reach the React aria elements in my integration tests.
January 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM