Lessons Learned with Weld and Cucumber
I’ve recently started a conversion of Junit-style Selenium tests to using Cucumber. The goal of this is not currently BDD, but more about writing example driven tests that will focus on the significant...
View ArticleA Tester Should Know Better
So, I have cancer. It’s a rare blood cancer called Multiple Myeloma. I was diagnosed back in December and quickly started induction chemo. Before I get too far into this, things are going well. The...
View ArticleWelcome to the Jekyll
I’ve been on Squarespace for quite some time now, but I’ve been reluctant to move to their newer versions. Considering how little I was posting, it wasn’t worth paying more each month for that. There...
View ArticleStill Testing, Developing, and More Importantly, Living
Just thought I would drop a note. Last year I posted about my health1 and then I went silent on this site for quite a while.First off, I’m doing fine. I continue to be in remission with the Myeloma...
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Say What You Want, As A Non-Designer I Love Bootstrap
Bootstrap1 has been around for a number of years now. Open sourced by Twitter, its popularity grew so fast that it inspired a bit of reaction.2 And not without reason. Numerous websites took the...
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Keyboard Maestro as a Test Tool Part 1 - Throw Away Emails
IntroductionI’m rather fond of finding new tools and leveraging them for a variety of tasks. Often it is just a way to make some repetitive task a little easier, even if that task isn’t directly...
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Keyboard Maestro as a Test Tool Part 2 - Browser Agnostic Form Filling
As testers, we all find ourselves having to do a lot of repetitive work. That’s just the nature of the job. To test something to the level we think necessary, we might have to do the same steps dozens,...
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Keyboard Maestro as a Test Tool Part 3 - My Version of Bug Magnet
Bug MagnetBug Magnet1 is one of Gojko Adzic’s numerous contributions to software development and testing. It’s an exploratory testing aid and extension for Chrome and Firefox. It keeps on hand a number...
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The A**hats of Testing
Yeah, I guess I’m gonna go there.I sincerely doubt that I’m alone when I write this. I’m guessing there are others out there who are equally tired of the crap we testers put up with, and I don’t mean...
View ArticleQuality People in Testing
In my last post, The A**hats of Testing, I went on a rant about archetypes of people in testing that get on my nerves. I had mixed feelings about putting that post out there. I was nervous as it was a...
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