Specific practices to make real Agile happen, with End-to-End (via UI) Test Automation and Continuous Testing — Over the last 20 years, many software projects claimed to do Agile, Scrum or Kanban, doesn’t matter. The majority of the so-called “agile” project did Agile wrong or fakely, based on the objective judgements like below:

Drive Windows UWP apps with Appium 2. — A repost of my daughter’s article, which was based on my book: “Practical Desktop App Test Automation with Appium”. I made minor modifications and added a few notes. In a previous article, I went through how to automate iOS apps with Appium. In this article, we will drive a Windows…

The reason behind ‘flakiness’ is waiting. ‘Automated Testing’ is not that good, there is a much better and simpler solution. — This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series. From Part 1, sensible people should agree that Selenium is not flaky, it is the test script issue. In other words, it is to do the tester’s capability. The so-called “flaky” issue is all about waits in test scripts. AJAX…

Don’t be fooled by fake automated testers and evil vendors’ marketing teams. On reliability, Selenium WebDriver is much better than any other web test automation framework. — Update (2023–02–02): Part 2 Clarify ‘automated waiting’ is available. Today, I saw two articles about Selenium, with the lie “Selenium is Flaky”. Terminology: “Flaky” is just another word for “non-deterministic”. “Love-Hate Relationship with Selenium Automation

How to increase reliability in an automated test for a file download. — A repost of my daughter’s article, I added a few notes. This is also included in my “How to in Selenium WebDriver” series. This article will show you how to verify a file download completes successfully in Selenium WebDriver. Table of Contents: ∘ Test Design ∘ Fixed Wait ∘ Check…

The things I have learned and plans for this year. — I started writing on Medium two years ago (2021–01–27). Last year, on the first anniversary, I wrote down a review. One year on Medium Things I have learned.zhiminzhan.medium.com It is the anniversary time again. Table of Contents: · Stats for the past year ∘ 1. Total number of published articles: 285 (from 114) ∘ 2. Total number of featured…

The best stuff comes free (as in freedom and free beer) — Many automated testers at my age have tried many web test automation (end-to-end, functional) frameworks or tools at work and failed (check out the Definition of End-to-End Test Automation Success), such as HP Quick Test Pro, IBM Rational Functional Tester, Microsoft Coded UI Test, TestComplete, Tosca, Ranorex PhantomJS, Protractor, TestCafe…

Many software testers know the answer when they think deeply. However, in practice, they often neglect it and focus on trivial matters. Therefore, test automation failures. — This is one of the Stories series. Table of Contents: · The Story · This is an Important Realization but often Neglected · The Story of S Continues (in a few year's time) The Story In 2016, I worked in a large tech company (over 500 IT staff, considered large in my…

How to use Mechanize for a website’s performance and load testing — A repost of my daughter’s article, which was based on my book: “Practical Performance and Load Testing”. I made minor modifications and added a few notes. Mechanize is a library for automating interactions with websites, without a browser involved. Mechanize is implemented in many scripting languages, such as Perl (WWW::Mechanize)…