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January 16, 2018

Why you need to test your production environment

It occurred to me lately, after chatting with some people from the testing community, that not everyone runs automated tests or does any kind of testing in the production environment.… Read more
December 20, 2017

Checkout my article for TechBeacon on Top 5 Apache Commons utilies for automation engineers: https://techbeacon.com/5-best-apache-commons-utilities-automation-engineers Read more
December 17, 2017

TestTalk on why automation is fun

Checkout the talk i had with Joe on why automation is fun and why you should also get into automation: https://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/183-test-automation-fun-corina-pip/ Happy listening! Read more
October 30, 2017

Check that the value you think you typed into a field has actually been typed correctly

You are writing some automated tests with Selenium, that require you to fill in some text fields in a form. You are pretty confident you typed the values you expected… Read more
October 16, 2017

Test design: write tests with proper console output to easily identify failure reasons

When automated test are running, they are either running on your own machine (when you write them or run them to check something), or in your CI. When you run… Read more
October 10, 2017

The tester’s daily dilemma: my automated tests fail because of the test environment. What can i do?

Automated tests. They are there, and they need to be run. On a test environment. By you. You wrote them in a way that they should be reliable, when the… Read more
September 19, 2017

Checking whether an image is broken with HttpClient

Let’s say you have a task to check whether a certain image is broken on your page. In case of a broken image, instead of it being rendered properly on… Read more
September 12, 2017

Removing all digits, non-digits, whitespaces (from Strings) and other usages of replaceAll

Some tasks will require you to replace all occurrences of certain Strings from other Strings with something else, based on a pattern. Or remove all those occurrences. For example, maybe… Read more
August 30, 2017

Identify the OS tests are running on with os.Name or SystemUtils

In order to make your tests OS agnostic, sometimes, you need to create some additional logic to handle OS specifics. For example, if you are running Selenium tests, on a… Read more
August 22, 2017

Using Maven checkstyle in your project to help adhere to coding standards

Coding standards are something both automating testers and developers should adhere to. Pretty obvious right? Maybe not that obvious might be some of the rules you should follow when writing the code… Read more

Welcome to my blog!

I’m Amy, a minimalist and simple living enthusiast who has dedicated her life to living with less and finding joy in the simple things. Through this blog, I aim to share my expertise, insights, and experiences. Join me on this journey as we explore the world of slow, purposeful living together!