Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

Since I do receive this question via email quite a lot, I will answer it as an FAQ.

I couldn’t work around the recent bug in VirtualBox version 4.3.14. It conflicts with my Anti-virus software under windows.

In May 2014, at Let’s Test 2014 I presented two sessions:

• A tutorial on Automation Abstractions
• A workshop on skill aquisition and transfer

Hands on Exploration of Page Objects and Abstraction Layers with Selenium Webdriver Workshop

This made a good change from the ‘beginner’ tutorials, because I think automation abstractions are not well covered online.

I released my code on github.

This could easily be a full day tutorial, but I squeezed it into half a day for Let’s Test, so we went through the material very quickly. If you would like me to conduct this workshop for your team at your office then please contact me.

Testing Circus interviewed me for their May 2014 issue.

At StarEast 2014 I presented a Selenium WebDriver tutorial and a lightning keynote.

The Tutorial

The tutorial pre-requisite was the Free Get Started Selenium WebDriver course. This allows everyone to have the basic installs ready so that the tutorial can start quickly.

• The test pages we use on the tutorial: Selenium Test Pages GitHub repository

Interview

A live interview was also conducted.

Lightning Keynote

I performed a lightning keynote with the title A sense of urgency" or “A sense of readiness”.

At the Test Management Summit 2014. I presented a tutorial and a faciliated session.

The Summit Tutorial Materials

The tutorial was a cut down version of my Hands on Tutorial, with explanations and demos, mainly aimed at managers rather than practitioners.

The Summit Session Materials

The slides I used for the Summit 70 minute discussion are on slideshare here.

Slideshare Test Management Summit 2014 Load Slideshare presentation

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?