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Reflections on Names, Nasty, Variation and Mystery
This blog post is a collation of micro-blog posts which were reflections on slogans generated by The Evil Tester Sloganizer, and uploaded to LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Covering topics such as “being nasty”, varying what we do, investigating mystery, role naming and therapy.
The following slogans were all automatically generated by The Evil Tester Sloganizer. And I then thought about what they might mean, and posted my reflections on Instagram.
How to Randomize your Software Testing Thought Process
TLDR; Variation in testing often leds us to test data, flows and environments. We can increase the chance that we learn something relevant by reading more blogs, watching YouTube and attending conferences. We can also trigger insights, that we ourselves have gained, by reading meaning into unrelated text, content or koans.
September 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary
TLDR; More code to study, conference slides to read, useful tools and more…
August 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary
TLDR; New code to study, some apps to test. And some blog posts…
Overview of LEAPWORK Web Automating Tool
TLDR; LEAPWORK tool helps automate web applications and APIs using graphical building blocks instead of a programming language
Example of modelling an application flow as a diagram for Software Testing
TLDR; An example of modelling the application flow of a simple functionality. Modelling helps think through coverage and test ideas and think about what next for your testing.
I chose the very simple I Feel Lucky functionality on Google to use as an example application for modelling to support exploratory testing. I recorded the modelling session and explained my thought processes as I went.
I need a tool... no, you need to work on the system
I was asked a question over email, and I’m paraphrasing the essence as, “given our project issues what tool can we use to automatically pull out all this data and automate the app to let us test it properly?”.
Unfortunately most of the time, when I’m asked this, the answer isn’t what people want to hear.
An Introduction to API Based Documentation Automating
TLDR; The formal api documentation specifications ecosystems have tools that can help create documentation more easily and use the documentation to automatically validate e.g. Dredd, Swagger and StopLight
I’m working on an API for The Pulper, and I want to write documentation in a formal spec and use tools to validate it. Sounds Easy.
June 2019 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary
TLDR; Two online events, one workshop, a podcast, and a tonne of Patreon content.
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