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After spending more than a decade in the testing industry, we feel software testing can be improved.
By Technological excellence – Testing software from the inside out
By Testing acumen – Creative and practical testing thought processes
By Business value – Tangible results to the bottom line
We learn, research and teach these values and look forward to collaborate with you on them.
Latest from the Blog Book
Legacy Products Automation –Technology Challenges
Legacy products usually have some common themes around them. Typically older technology stacks along with ‘not so efficient’ processes as well. Among the many legacy teams I’ve known, I see this pattern clearly and [...]
Communication and Engineers
While communication is a very broad term, can mean anything from the phone line, email radio waves or notice board. In this talk / post I mean the acting of conversing with another human [...]
Pillars of Automation Framework Design
As soon as you mention an automation framework, one would find people start talking about Selenium, TestNG so on and so forth. I classify the automation project’s architecture designed by the automation team as a [...]
The ‘not’ so small code changes
I recently made the good old ‘one liner change’ in our automation framework having a 22-hour batch run with one permutation only. We discovered a week before regression my ‘small change’ had caused a [...]
Understanding HTTP messages
In our quest to understand API testing, the first step would be to understand the general protocol used by client and server side of an application to communicate, which in API automation we would [...]
The Magic of Continuous Testing
Have you ever reached release time for your product only to find out major bugs coming out of testing? Does this sound like what you face on a routine basis? Trying to drill [...]
Latest Videos
QnA 03 - Feature Files and User stories - Purpose and usage
QnA 02 - Jira Vs TFS
QnA 01 - Testing Micro Services
AG2018 - Q11 Combining testers and automation engineers
AG2018 - Q10 Automating client server applications
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QnA 03 - Feature Files and User stories - Purpose and usage
- Background and history on requirements - BDD filling the gap to facilitate user stories - Implementation -Feature file and user story's individual importance and linkage -
QnA 02 - Jira Vs TFS
Jira Vs TFS -
QnA 01 - Testing Micro Services
- Going from monolithic to a micro services architecture - How to test them - Where would regression tests fit in the SDLC -
AG2018 - Q11 Combining testers and automation engineers
Automation Guild 2018 conference expert round table Q&A (AutomationGuild.com) Day 01 Q&A was with me (Ali Khalid), Angie Jones and Oren Rubin. Due to lack of time some questions remained unanswered which I am responding to here. Q11 - Combining testers and automation engineers -
AG2018 - Q10 Automating client server applications
Automation Guild 2018 conference expert round table Q&A (AutomationGuild.com) Day 01 Q&A was with me (Ali Khalid), Angie Jones and Oren Rubin. Due to lack of time some questions remained unanswered which I am responding to here. Q10 - Automating client server applications
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Why time is the most important asset
Time, Money, Freedom; What’s more important..
Time is the single most valuable asset, here’s why:
Money:
– There is more than enough money and resources to go around, we’ve trained ourselves to believe in scarcity and spend our whole lives chasing it.
Freedom:
– In this […]
Most precious asset
What is the most precious asset on earth each person has?
Options:
a – Money
b – Time
c – Freedom
d – Not mentioned here..
Here are some clues:
– Everyone has it, less or more,
– Everyone needs it, but always under estimate how much they need […]
Cannot automate testing, so no need to automate?
Since testing cannot be automated, therefore no need to learn automation.
While the first half is true, the conclusion is not..
While collaborating, investigating and reasoning with people cannot be automated,
The kind of applications we are building now cannot be completely ‘checked’ in […]
Automated = losing jobs?
When non-tech people hear ‘automated’, what does that mean for them?
From past 100 years history, Automated = losing jobs. In testing however, that’s not completely true. Here’s why:
In other industries remedial and repetitive jobs are being automated rapidly, blue collar jobs.
Like […]
Mocking JSON test data
Lots of systems reusing different JSON schemas, which we need to mock,
By using JSON schema / template files to construct and push custom JSON messages to different systems..
Here’s where I have reached so for in solving it and the implementation steps:
Step […]
How loosely to couple your framework?
To couple your framework tighty or loosely, that’s the question!
And here is my thought:
The first answer straight away is – loosely coupled off course,
Which is true, but how loosely?
The answer would be highly dependent on the context and usage, so there […]
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