A simple, effective and should-have-been method to greatly increase software engineers’ productivity and morale. — Table of Contents: · Hiring good IT engineers is getting hard · Understand Software Engineer’s Productivity · Why Test Automation makes a better programmer? · My Productivity Gain after mastering Test Automation and CT · Reality Check · How? · FAQ Hiring good IT engineers is getting hard

Two Execution modes: an individual test → keep the browser open; all tests in one test script file → close the browser as normal — Table of Contents: · Background · The Problem · First Solution · Improvement · Three Important Lessons I learned · FAQ Background I started Automated UI Testing with JWebUnit in 2005 (learned from a world-renown programmer). I used IntellijIDEA, my favourite Java IDE, to develop and run tests. …

Write 1+ Automated End-to-End Test for a user story; Add it to the regression suite; Run the regression suite daily and keep them valid! Starting on the first day and then every day! — Table of contents: · 35-Word Functional Test Automation Strategy ∘ 1. Write 1+ Automated End-to-End Test for a user story ∘ 2. Add it to the regression suite ∘ 3. Run the regression suite daily and keep them valid! ∘ 4. Starting on the first day…

Mastering two complementing skills makes impossible tasks much easier. — This article is one of the “Chinese Idiom Stories for Software Professionals” series. Story Once upon a time, a man bragged about his bow: “There is no bow better than mine. It doesn’t need any arrow!” Another man bragged about his arrow: “There is no arrow better than mine. …

After knowing what is not real, motivated professionals can learn and achieve the real. — This article is included in the “IT Terminology Clarified” and “Be aware of Fake Test Automation/DevOps Engineers” series. This article’s focus is automated end-to-end testing via UI, i.e, testing the entire system as a user would.

Testing frames (including iframes) in Selenium WebDriver — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission and slight modification. I added it here for the convenience of my blog subscribers. You can find more Selenium examples like this one in my eBook: Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby. …

The pot calling the kettle black. — This article is one of the “Chinese Idiom Stories for Software Professionals” series. Story King LiangHui asked Mencius (a famous philosopher): “I am a civilian-caring king. Why didn’t the population of my kingdom grow much?” Mencius told King LiangHui a story. “Two armies met on the battlefield. The soldiers of the…

How to test downloading PDFs in Selenium WebDriver — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission and slight modification. I added it here for the convenience of my blog subscribers. You can find more Selenium examples like this one in my eBook: Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby. This is also included in my “How to in Selenium WebDriver”…

Betting on some random stroke of luck — This article is one of the “Chinese Idiom Stories for Software Professionals” series. Story One day, a farmer is working in the fields when he saw a hare running past him, dashing itself into a tree stump. The hare broke its neck and died. Without any effort, the farmer happily enjoyed…