I’m going to take a little turn this month from what I usually post and talk about what many (including myself) consider the ‘more boring’ aspect of testing: test planning. About a month a ago, I participated in a “Hackathon” as part of a proposal effort. To prepare for this, the Coveros team spent some time […]
Great news. I’ll be talking in Chicago on September 19th at the Agile Testing and Test Automation Summit 2016. I’ll be discussing different testing frameworks, with a focus on the team based decision to choose the correct one. Be sure to register if you’re in the area for the conference, as it’s sure to be […]
One of the most challenging topics we discuss in our Mobile Application Testing training course is how to determine what devices to purchase for testing and how to get the widest device coverage for tests. When thinking through this there are several factors to consider: On what kinds of devices was my app designed to be used? […]
Recently I have been researching better ways to write my Selenium tests as they have become rather hard to maintain. One pattern that I have found immensely useful is the Page Object Model (POM). In this blog post I will talk about what makes the POM a good pattern and show a simple framework I put […]
Last month I posted about a major update I made for my testing framework. A lot of new functionality was rolled in, and the execution of the tests was significantly cleaned up. My co-worker Marco also merged in some changes, making the project Gradle friendly. The more I use this tooling, the more I like […]
After much work, I have finally gotten a new release out of the STF. Now we’re up to version 1.4.0. The full project is now available on github, but if you are just looking to update your jar from the previous version, you can find that here. The file structure has changed some to better […]
This is the first in a series of posts I plan to do as an introduction to the basics of Appium. In this post I will walk through how to use tools that come with Appium to record the basic steps of a functional test for a sample iOS application and then how to clean that code […]
Zephyr Plugin is the solution for Agile Testing if you are already using JIRA in your Agile Software Management as a tool for issue tracking and project management, and want to integrate test management into the same system. It adds many new features to JIRA: Collaboration Test Cases Writing, Reviewing, Executing, Verify Test Results. Formal […]
Introduction A few months, I wrote a blog post about performing compatibility testing for mobile web apps. Since that time, I have been talking with Sauce Labs about putting together a webinar focusing on locally debugging and executing compatibility testing that will eventually be run in the cloud. And that time is finally almost upon us! You […]
Introduction It’s been a while since I’ve posted about some BDD work, but I’ve recently gotten back into it using Behave. Over the next few months, I’ll be posting more and more, as I get deeper into the tool, but I figure I’ll start with a comparison based on my initial work. This post will […]
