Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

We use Maven in the Java For Testers book.

Once you have Maven running it tends to work fine. You mainly experience problems when you initially install it, at the point when you know how to nothing with Maven.

I don’t really like keyword driven frameworks. For a whole bunch of reasons that I won’t go into now, since you came here to learn how to write them.

Well, here’s the secret…

This is old tech. Older than old.

I often stumble across security issues on live sites. Some are very simple. Here are some tips to use to help you find simple security issues before they go live.

There are plent of shortcut keys and approaches to writing code that IntelliJ will help with.

Setting up a machine for Java.

There are a whole bunch of free IDEs out there that you could use with Java:

1. IntelliJ
2. Eclipse
3. Netbeans

Back in 2011, I decided to try recording an exploratory testing session.

Slides

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In May 2013 I presented a Keynote at TestNet discussing how I have worked with, and built, Silver Bullets; cautioning people not to think they have ever found a Silver Bullet, instead to keep questing for improvement, and never stop questing.

Keynote Slides - My Quest for Silver Bullets

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Tutorial

A half day tutorial on Web Testing using HTTP Proxies and in built browser tools.