February 2023 Content Summary

Content Summary for February 2023 EvilTester.com and Patreon.

All monthly summaries of Patreon and blog content

Patreon Posts For February 2023

• Integration Testing

Trying to resolve differences between Automated Unit test behaviour in different environments.

• Animated Graphviz CLI

I’ve just created a new repo on Github. This has the generate animated Graphviz cli

• Docker Docs

Most official documentation for tooling is quite poor.I can however, thoroughly recommend the documentation for Docker.

• Parameterized Automated Execution

One low cost way I like to experiment with unit tests is by adding some adhoc parameterisation.

• Automation ROI

I saw a post on linkedin on calculating Test Automation ROI…

• Randomness

I like to use random data in my automated execution… why?

• Annotations

I’m working on a Spring Boot application at the moment … so many annoations.

• Secure Coding Fundamentals Talk

A good video on Secure Coding Fundamentals.

• Confidence and competence comes from practice

Confidence and competence comes from practice. There is no magic. Just practice.

• Management Theory

I read through ‘Management Theory - From Taylorism to Japanization’ by John Sheldrake

• Feb 9th Twitter API changes might mean death of Chatterscan

On Feb 9th 2023 Chatterscan will probably die when twitter stop making their api free. Considering some options.

• Triggering ffmpeg to create mp4

I thought that it would be easier to use a library to control ffpmeg.

• Auto Animating Graphviz

I’ve been experimenting with different ways to try and create an animated version of the Graphviz rendering programmatically.

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