The ministry of testing have a bloggers club, and each month they post a different prompt. I’ve not written anything for the bloggers club for a while, and decided to give this months prompt …

Automation Testing

The Page Object Model is a great way to separate concerns but it’s still far too easy to end up with a code-base that does too much.

The user of our applications might not have the greatest network connection, so it's important to test our apps with a slow connection too.

As everyone knows, Mobile industry has taken all over the world and is the fast emerging industry in terms of technology and business. It…

Last updated: July 2020

To automate or not to automate? That’s the question. I have tried to condense in a list of pros and cons if automating your testing will…

Using assume in test automation

8 principles for selling the value of excellent testing.

There are so many possibilities between UX, Agile, Lean, DevOps or SRE practices that we can end up paralysed.

The most common question about serverless I get lately is how to test applications in a local...

Docker now is a common tool for many QA engineers. It is used in production as well as in testing environments or both. Documentation for…

Most organizations adopt a "Percent-Test-Coverage" metric as part of their Definition of Done. Very often, it's set by managers, and beco...

Life was going well, we were following the standard testing pyramid. For my service, I had 80% Unit Test coverage, 60% Integration Tests…

Cypress gives us great debugability by logging Cypress commands. However, it is not always easy to detect in which step our Mocha tests…

To write reproducible and isolated tests, we need two things :

Isolate global mutable state to the same scope as the test. Either the state can be scoped to the test or the test needs to isolate that global state.
Control the inputs and outputs of a...

We still wonder why so much waste and rework is found in software implementation due to poor planning. What can be done upfront?

I love teaching people about Continuous Confidence. Testing Software can be difficult and sometimes quite frustrating. It can be even worse…

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