Software Testing and Development Blog Posts

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.

What happens if you combine a table editor with test table generation? You get a tabular random table generation tool.

This is a collation of edited older posts on Fiddler, explaining how I usee it to bypass restrictive proxy settings for tool configuration, remove headers, change browser verbs when accessing pages.

This post and video shows how to use the Simulation Mode in API Challenges.

This post and video shows how to use the Mirror Mode in API Challenges.

TLDR; Can Test Automation mind defects? Yes, both regressions and new defects by adding more variation into the paths or data used.

Statements like “Test automation should-not/can-not/will-not find defects” do not completely match my experience. In my experience, Automated Execution can be used to help find defects and frequently does. Not just ‘regressions’ but ’new defects’ as well.

Asking questions like “Do we need testing?” are important. But there are other questions we should probably ask first.

I have had “A Mind At Play” by Jimmy Sonni and Rob Goodman sitting on my shelf for a while now, waiting patiently with a bookmark on page 219 for me to revisit for reflection. This is the section of the book that describes Claude Shannon’s 6 Strategies for Creative Thinking.

TLDR; Negativity tends to bias processes towards the status quo. Negative feedback causes system to change. Change is how we improve.