Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

TLDR; Learning to use browser dev tools can help you investigate defects that have no visible output on the Web GUI, and they can help you bypass problems in the real world.

One common bug that I find a lot with web applications are errors that do not get reported to the user.

TLDR; If you are not sure that you should experiment with new techniques then find ways to monitor the domain first, you might be able to learn from someone else’s experience.

When things are stable, and they are going well, a hard question to answer is “Is it time to experiment?”.

How to improve your software testing skills, by following these strategies, that’s how. Based on a quick book recommendation - Isaac Newton by James Gleick I want to explain how we can learn lessons from his approach to his work and career.

TLDR; HttpURLConnection does not support PATCH, but we can sometimes use X-HTTP-Method-Override instead (this works with Spark Framework). I can Patch POJO using reflection, or deserialize to simple POJO and compare with null values instead

TLDR; Architecting a Web Service using Spark Framework to support more Unit testing and allow the inclusion of HTTP @Test methods in the build without deploying the application. Create API as a POJO. Start Spark in @BeforeClass, stop it in @AfterClass, make simple HTTP calls.

TLDR; Identify Oracles, automate observation of changes, understand GUI/Mobile differences, harness tool support.

TL;DR Never too late to refactor. Do it in small chunks. Protected by tests. Using IDE to refactor.

I spoke at the Nordic Testing Days 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia. I’m doing three different sessions, so I’ll be busy..

• Tutorial - “Java For Testers - 1 Day Hands On” - June 7th
• Keynote - “Creating yourself as a tester - make your own testing path” - June 8th
• Workshop - “Just Enough JavaScript to Be Dangerous” - June 9th - 10:30 - 12:30

Keynote - “Creating yourself as a tester - make your own testing path”

Don’t limit yourself to a set of attributes and words, seek more, develop strategies for identifying new concepts and ways of exploring them for then you have manifested the spirit of Quaere.

On the 21st of March I hosted a “Dev Ops and QA” session at the Test Focus Groups in London.

This turned into a small 2 page article for Test Magazine in the May 2017 issue.