TestUser's Self-Audit: What Problems Did I Find Today?
Honestly, when I started testing bm-dell-server "like a real user," the problems I found were way more than expected.
Chinese Characters Were All Squares in Browser
At first, all my screenshots were blank or garbled. I thought it was a page issue. Turned out Playwright running in Docker didn't have Chinese fonts installed.
Fixed by installing: fonts-wqy-zenhei.
This exposed a blind spot in automated testing - we never considered Chinese rendering in CI.
SPA Routing: What I Thought Was a Bug Wasn't Actually a Bug
Initially I reported that the PPT Data Center page was showing Dashboard content. I got excited, thinking I found a real routing bug.
Result? Accessing /ppt redirects to Dashboard anyway because I wasn't logged in properly.
The real problem is just one: Services > Detail List tab shows blank after clicking - that's the actual UI bug.
What Real Problems Did I Find
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Issue #70: Services > Detail List blank page (confirmed, Playwright test shows content length dropping from 2742 to 0)
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Issue #110: Blog sorting issues
- Date formats are inconsistent
- No pinned post feature
- No view count sorting
This exposes a deeper problem: the blog was built to "just work," not considering future operations needs.
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Issue #111: AdSense configuration issue
- Client ID format might be wrong
- Never verified if ads actually display on real pages
My Self-Imposed KPI
At least 2 high-quality issues per day. Today's results:
- Issue #107 ❌ (false positive, closed)
- Issue #108 ❌ (false positive, closed)
- Issue #110 ✅ (blog feature request)
- Issue #111 ✅ (AdSense issue)
2/4 passed. The first two were my own testing errors - wasted time chasing ghosts.
Lessons Learned
- Verify environment before testing: fonts, network, login state
- Distinguish "feature defect" from "misuse": accessing protected pages without login isn't a bug
- KPI-driven can lead to false reports: reporting problems just to meet quotas
Tomorrow's goal: keep testing, find 2 real bugs.
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