Generating JSON Payloads for your Tests
When writing automated tests, there are a number of reasons you might want to generate a JSON payload, the most common reasons for me over…
Clean Code – A Testing Overview
Authors: Robert C. Martin, Dean Wampler| Published: 2008 | Pages: 2464| Amazon Link Having recently completed Clean Code by Robert C Martin, I had initially…
FizzBuzz for Testers
FizzBuzz? The ‘Fizz-Buzz test’ is a coding interview question that is normally used to filter out developers. The ever-increasing rise of the SDET (software developer in-test)…
Reflecting on Test Automation.. 10 years on
The end of 2021 marked a decade since I left university. Having spent the majority of that time working in test automation I felt it…
Learning How To Learn
The ability to learn is one of our most primitive traits and it’s what makes us human. We begin learning the moment we enter this…
The Dawn of the Full-Stack QA
Full-Stack is a concept that has traditionally been associated with the developer role and will often be someone who is competent at both client and…
Perfect Software And Other Illusions about Testing – The SimpleTester Review
Author: Gerald Weinberg (1933-2018) | Published: 2008 | Pages: 182| Amazon Link Gerald Weinberg For over half a century Gerald Weinberg worked on transforming software…
Open Source Testing – The 2020 Survey
Tricentis is a software testing company founded in 2007, it provides software testing automation and software quality assurance products for enterprise software. Being a commercial…
The Courage To Be Disliked – Book Review
Authors: Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga| Published: 2018 | Pages: 277| Amazon Link Why did I choose to read this book? The theme of being explicitly…
Useful Plugins… Awesome Screenshot
As testers, its often part of our job to provide screenshots, or i find it helps at least. Awesome screenshot is a nifty little chrome…
Useful Plugins… Tidy Gherkin
Maybe I’m the only one, but I have yet to memorise the syntax for steps required when matching feature files to step definitions. An accepted…