Subtle Reasons that Fake Test Automation Engineers like Headless Browser Testing

Fakers want to hide the fact they cannot do real test automation.

One day, a friend talked about fake E2E Web Test Automation in his company (a well-known one). When he mentioned headless testing, suddenly, I figured out why so many fake test automation engineers like ‘Headless Browser Testing’: They just want to prevent others from seeing test execution in the browser.

Table of Contents:
· Fake Test Automation Engineers Want to Hide Fake Test Automation
· Headless Browser Testing in a Nutshell
· Test Failures only in Headless execution are a pain to debug
· Why do Fakers fear viewable test execution?
· Why ‘headless testing’ might help fake automated testers?
· Why don’t just fire those fake automated testers?
· A Story: ‘headless testing’ and a fake ‘principal software engineer’

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