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Automating Calculator From Console
I was asked how I might go about automating an online calculator application. I have a calculator app of my own so I was interested in comparing the two apps and experimenting with a canvas based JS App.
Episode 014 - How to Recruit Testers - The Evil Tester Show
In this podcast I discuss How to recruit testers: the job spec, and the audition process.
Unit Testing FAQs and Lessons Learned
TLDR; Unit Testing and Code Coverage can lead to emotive discussions. These are personal lessons learned around Unit Testing and TDD. Keep things simple. Keep refactoring. View Test and Main as symbiotic.
July 2020 EvilTester.com and Patreon Content Summary
TLDR; July content contains links new practice applications, code and a new course.
API Testing Challenge - Debrief - POST challenger 201
This post and video discusses what we can learn from the challenge POST /challenger 201.
API Testing Challenge - How To - POST challenger 201
This post and video shows how to complete the challenge POST /challenger 201 using Insomnia.
API Testing Challenge Activities - a gamified playground to practice API Testing
Use Challenges to Practice API Testing
How can you learn and practice API Testing? With a set of challenges designed to guide you through the basic technologies and principles, built into our online gamification learning environment.
BrowserStack - Breakpoint 2020 - Talk
I spoke at the Online BrowserStack Breakpoint conference.
Much of the automating we do to support testing involves detecting change. Once our tests pass, they fail when the system changes and the automated execution alerts us to the change. There are other ways that automating can help us.
Automating To Detect Change
Much of “Test Automation” falls into the set of “Automated Execution to Detect Change”, in this post I will explain what that means and provide some examples.
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