Blog Posts

TLDR; AccelQ tool helps automate web applications and APIs using a DSL rather than programming language

I receive a lot of concerned emails and messages from testers. People concerned that their testing skills will not be enough to keep them in work and that the future revolves around automation which they don’t know how to do. No programming experience. And should they learn API or UI? What programming language should they learn? People do feel that their career is at risk.

And that’s what I cover in this podcast.

Testival Meetup 2019

I presented a talk on Automating Pragmatically.

Based on questions I am often asked about automating. I wanted to create a talk where I explained the models I use to help me understand automating and the approach I use for evaluating information about automating that I find online.

Logistics

• June 4th 2019

• Testival Meetup

• Event Page

The talk was recorded. I have uploaded it to Patreon, and the full talk with Q&A has been uploaded to Evil Tester Talks.

Some recommended tools from over the years.

Over the years I have blogged useful links, and books etc. A lot of the pages become out of date and hard to keep track of.

So I have gathered, some of those post contents here, for easier collation and updating.

Test Tribe AMA June 2019

This was a live AMA.

Questions were uploaded to Facebook and the talk was streamed live over Facebook Live.

Logistics

• May 24th 2019

• Test Tribe Facebook Group

• Test Tribe Web Site

The talk was recorded and will be online at some point. I have also uploaded a live recording, with behind the scenes information to Patreon and Evil Tester Talks.

• Patreon.com/eviltester
• Evil Tester Talks

Video

Joy of Coding 2019

I presented a talk on lessons learned from:

• Automating
• Programming
• Teaching Programming
• Marketing
• etc.

With the main aim being to encourage the notion of learning as many skills as possible from the Software Development cannon, to give us the flexibility to respond to different projects, environments and situations.

Logistics

• May 24th 2019

• Joy of Coding Conference

Recording

The official conference recording can be watched on InfoQ.

“Why?” is an incredibly popular question.

I think it has problems. I try to avoid it when I’m consulting.

In this show we will examine “Why?” and under what circumstances I do use it.

I was asked “Which is the best link checking tool?”. And I don’t know. But I do know that I use Total Validator Pro and a Chrome Plugin called Check My Links.

I wanted to create a very simple, common sense overview of Software Testing. And that is what I have tried to do, in this blog post.