Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

TLDR; Bookmarklets are an easy way to have custom javascript to support your testing that sync across browsers.

TLDR; Learn your skills and techniques. Then learn your tools. Mastery of tooling can lead to new techniques and new ideas. Continue to learn your theory, skills and techniques. Continue to master your tools.

TLDR; war is horrible. Lessons can be learned from it. Would a distinction between defensive measures and pursuit, help your testing? I often see many test strategies that are highly defensive, but low on pursuit.

TLDR; if you blindly copy an expert you do not learn context, you replicate mannerisms and lose their subtlety. Consciously analyse their actions, learn their skills, and apply them individually in a coordinated fashion.

TLDR; I test systems, not processes.

TLDR; I migrated blogs over to Hugo and I didn’t automate because I was only doing it once, I should have automated because I actually migrated 450+ times (at least once per post. Find results at testerhq.com

TL;DR with JSoup either switch off document pretty printing or use textNodes to pull the raw text from an element.

Fusion Meetup in Birmingham March 2017

At the Fusion Meetup in Birmingham on March 23rd I presented a deep dive talk in how we automate applications to support testing.

I was told the meetup was for developers. I took that to mean that I could go as technical and quickly as I want. So I did.

Title: A Technical Deep Dive into Practical Test Automation

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Test Focus Groups - London March 2017

At the Test Focus Groups] March 2017 held near Heathrow, London, I hosted the three Devops and QA sessions.

The sessions were recorded so hopefully I will be able to link to more material in the future. I didn’t make many notes because the discussions were pretty fluid and flowed well.

Devops

I hosted a “Devops and QA” session. We had a mix of participants ranging from people who were actively working on DevOps and people who were interested.

TL;DR A potentially contentious post where I describe how I’ve survived without writing a lot of Java main methods, and how learning from code that is often driven by a main method has not helped some people. I do not argue for not learning how to write main methods. I do not argue against main methods. I argue for learning them later, after you know how to code Java. I argue for learning how to use test runners and built in features of maven or other build tools to execute your @Test code.