Open Source Testing – The 2020 Survey
The commitment Tricentis appears to show towards the open-source testing community is something that I can definitely get behind, being someone who has mostly used…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Testing with Amazon S3 and Postman
If you haven’t worked with S3 yet, it won’t be long until you do. The following post will outline the simple steps required to…
Heard the one about Cultural Fit?
Throughout my career, I have had countless interviews as well as being involved in the interview process on a number of occasions. The idea of…
Professional Scrum Master (PSM1) Certification
Scrum.org | 80 Questions | 1 Hour | 85% Pass Mark (68/80 | Multiple Choice / Multiple Answer / True/False PSM1 background The Professional…