Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

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TLDR; Plan, Practice and Communicate as efficiently, clearly, and concisely as possible.

TLDR; What does Software Developer actually mean? I don’t think it is synonymous with Programmer I think it refers to someone who can do most of the activities associated with creating, releaseing and selling software.

TLDR; Reading is fine. But at some point we have to put it into action. Identify an appropriate “thing”, Try it in a controlled environment, Apply it in the real world.

In this podcast I discuss test automation biases and how to avoid them.

Adopting a personal approach to Testing led me to adopt an exploratory approach to Testing, one driven by unique models, decisions, skills and sources of knowledge.

TLDR; Kerry McKeever explained and demonstrated his AG Grid automation plugin for Cypress, showing where to find the code and how to create custom commands for cypress.

TLDR; Automating Strategically is hard. Sometimes we need to work tactically and learn, before we move forward. Sometimes we automate for ourselves so that we benefit, before attempting to automate for the project.

Writing a Chrome Extension is pretty easy (getting it in the Chrome Store is much harder!). In this post I describe the steps to release an extension.

Jacoco can be used for coverage reporting from maven for both JUnit 4 and JUnit 5

Wherein the TOTE (Test Operate Test Exit) model is used to explore the nature of feedback and abstraction of test phases and map the TOTE model on to TDD, Exploratory Testing, Design processes, Analysis, Learning, Decision Making and Problem Solving.