Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

Those of us that have worked with computers for most of our lives, take the command line for granted. We know it exists, we know basically how to use it, and we know how to find the commands we need even if we can’t remember them.

My install of VirtualBox prompted me to update today. And I realised that I hadn’t written much about VirtualBox, and I find any videos I had created about it.

Which surprised me since I use Virtual Machines. A lot.

Google Chrome continually changes, which usually means good news as new features appear. Unfortunately sometimes it means changes to our existing workflow.

This happened recently when Google released a new version of Chrome, but moved the Emulator settings.

Should we use a WebDriverWait, or an assertion?

December 2013 in Helsinki, at the Software Development Summit 2013, I presented two Keynote talks:

• ‘Experiences of Exploratory Testing in Agile, Testing, Dev and QA’
• ‘My Quest for Silver Bullets’

I was fortunate in being asked to perform a keynote, and asked to fill in for a keynote speaker who unfortunately couldn’t attend, so I did two keynotes. Lucky me.

Experiences with Exploratory Testing in Agile, Testing, Dev and QA

The first was a talk built especially for the event entitled “Experiences with Exploratory Testing in Agile, Testing, Dev and QA”.

December 2013 in London, at the SIGIST Winter 2013 Conference, I was on a panel session with Dorothy Graham, Paul Gerrard and Dr Stuart Reid

The panel session ran with the title “Should Testers Code”

I wrote up my notes on the panel in a blog post

Notes

I attended the SIGIST in December because I was asked to be part of a Panel with the starting discussion title of “Should testers be able to code?”.

What else do I need to master when learning Selenium WebDriver?

A long time ago I coded a now defunct modelling tool to help me with my testing. Half the battle with managing and reporting testing involves deciding how you will model it for the project you work on.

We took delivery of the new iOS devices for mobile testing. And in order to activate them, you need to connect over Wi-Fi But they wouldn’t connect to the Wi-Fi network during the activation wizard. What to do?

The Evil Tester’s Guide to HTTP Proxies and Developer Tools - London Tester Gathering Workshops 2013

In October 2013, at the London Tester Gathering 2013, I presented a half day workshop on HTTP Proxies and Browser Developer Tools.

I started by throwing people in at the deep end. Mainly so they physically ‘feel’ the gaps in their knowledge, or can spot areas they want to work on in the workshop.