Check out this mini interview i did for Browserstack’s Icon of quality feature, as part of their celebration of International Tester’s day: https://www.browserstack.com/blog/honoring-iconsofquality-corina-pip-qa-lead/
Asides
My articles published in September
This September was quite productive, as i had 4 test automation related articles published, which i recommend reading:
- Creating an Architecture for Your Automated Tests
- Writing Automated Tests in Small Increments
- 4 Times Your Automation Passed While Bugs Were Present
- Now That You’ve Created Automated Tests, Run Them!
Enjoy.
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My blog posts on Tech buzzwords testers should at least know about have been published!
Checkout my series of two blog posts on Tech buzzwords testers should at least know about: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/07/08/tech-buzzwords-testers-should-at-least-know-about-part-1/ and https://blog.testproject.io/2021/07/29/tech-buzzwords-testers-should-at-least-know-about-2/. With lots of useful links for in-depth learning. Enjoy.
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My series of Maven related articles is out now
If you haven’t seen, this week i released my series of 2 articles to help get you started with Maven. In the first one, i discuss how to setup Maven on your machine and how to create a brand new Maven project. I also explain key concepts that define what Maven and a Maven project are (like dependencies). Check out this article here: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/06/28/getting-started-with-maven-part-1/.
In the second installment in this series, i further discuss some specifics about dependencies. Then, i go over project goals, how you can run your tests, and how you can create profiles and use system properties in your test run. Check it out here: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/06/28/getting-started-with-maven-part-2/. Enjoy.
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Logging Test Automation Information with Log4j
This week my newest article was released, this time on how to use Log4j to log relevant test automation information: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/05/05/logging-test-automation-information-with-log4j/. Check it out!
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Have you seen my article on using Spring for managing test environments in automated tests?
Read all about how to configure your test environment specific data in property files with Spring, to help run your automated TestNG and JUnit tests on any test environment you need: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/02/09/using-spring-to-switch-environments-in-automated-tests/. Enjoy.
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Read my article on using WebDriverWaits as retries
Checkout this article i wrote on how to use WebDriverWaits as retries for more test automation success: https://blog.testproject.io/2021/01/13/using-selenium-webdriver-waits-as-retries-in-your-selenium-tests/. If you haven’t used Waits yet, or you have, but are still having issues with tests randomly failing, this is the right approach for your tests. Enjoy.
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Read my new article on using Enums in your automation code
Check out this new article i wrote for TestProject: https://blog.testproject.io/2020/08/04/using-java-enums-in-test-automation/. It shows examples of when and how you can use Enums in your Java based automation tests. Enjoy!
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Read my new article on tips for clean code
Read the article i wrote for the TestProject blog on general tips for why and how we can achieve clean code in our automation: https://blog.testproject.io/2020/04/22/clean-code-in-tests-what-why-and-how/
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Read my article on how i prepare and test for releases
In case you haven’t already, read the article i wrote for QALead on how i prepare and test for releases: https://theqalead.com/topics/release-management-how-i-prepare-and-test-for-my-releases/. Enjoy.
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