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...
Category: Test Automation
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Course Review – Gradle Fundamentals
Kevin Jones | Pluralsight | Video course | 2h 16m | Beginner to Intermediate Gradle is growing in popularity and is quickly becoming...
Creating Test Tasks Using Gradle
In this post, we’ll go over the simple task of creating test categories that can then be executed using a Gradle task command. This can...