Compare two languages for automated testers, manual testers, business analysts, customers, managers, and developers. — Comparing programming languages often lead to heated debates among programmers (in different teams), with no winners. (There are no such debates among the developers within a team, as they all use the same one.) Automated end-to-end test scripts via UI drive the product (e.g. web app in Chrome browser), this…

Stabilising the tests and setting them up in a Continuous Testing server. — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission. In Part 1, I created five basic GraphQL API tests in Ruby. They worked but were not good enough as test execution is 100% reliable. I used specific IDs in test scripts, which might work fine the first time around. However, the…

Jira and Confluence have no value to me. — It seems that Jira and Confluence are used everywhere within the software industry. As an owner of several commercial software products, I don’t use Jira or Confluence, have never had the need and do not see any benefits from them. On 2022–11–10, DHH posted an insightful comment on LinkedIn based…

Write calls in GraphQL Playground, then transform them into test scripts in Ruby. — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission. I added a few notes. You can find more examples like this in my book: API Testing Recipes in Ruby. GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data. It stores…

Add another test case in an existing test script file — This article is one of the “Web Test Automation Selenium Training Workbook” series. Learning Objectives Review - selenium find_element syntax with ID locator - RSpec test structure Productivity Tips: - Validation - TestWise Snippet - Reformat (pretty-printing) - Code Completion (sort of) - Script Library Test Case 06 There is no new concept for this…

Set up a BuildWise Continuous Testing server in a Docker container. — A repost of my daughter’s article with permission. I added a few notes. BuildWise is a free and open-source Continuous Testing server. I have used it in the past for uni and intern work. Running BuildWise in a Docker container may be helpful as you can skip all the manual…

Extract the texts from multiple same-styled button texts. — This article is one of the “Web Test Automation Workbook” series (the complete training course will be on my Substack Newsletter), a set of bite-sized exercises (typically 15–20 mins). A practical and satisfying way to learn web test automation with Selenium WebDriver. Learning Objectives Extract the texts from multiple same-styled button texts.

Test File Download and verify in Selenium WebDriver — This article is one of the “Web Test Automation Workbook” series (the complete training course will be on my Substack Newsletter), a set of bite-size exercises. (many coaching sessions are still not converted in writing yet, I publish the later ones for experienced automated testers) Table of Contents: · Learning Objectives ·…