Test Management within Continuous Integration Pipelines
Techniques to manage a large suite of automated tests within a CI environment and yet still get fast feedback....
Techniques to manage a large s...
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Guide to Conducting Test Automation Code Reviews
Do you know what to look for when reviewing test code? Here are 8 specific things I pay close attention to when conducting code reviews for tests....
Do you know what to look for w...
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Selenium Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) API: How Does It Work?
Angie Jones explains the architecture behind Selenium 4’s new Chrome DevTools API and how to use it to take your tests to the next level....
Angie Jones explains the arc...
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Playing with Playwright – Java API
The Playwright open source automation framework has released a Java API for cross-browser end-to-end testing! See how to install Playwright, create tests, and implement the Page Object Model design pattern....
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7 Habits of Highly Effective SDETs
There is a great demand for software development engineers in test (SDETs), which is a hybrid role between Developer and Tester. However many employers are finding that simply finding a developer who writes test or a tester who writes code is not enough. There's so...
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TestProject – Sharing Reusable Automation via Addons
I've been exploring some of the newer testing tools lately and this week I had a look at TestProject. This tool promotes itself as a free community-driven test automation application, which really piqued my interest. It works as a graphical interface to industry-standard test automation...
I've been exploring some of th...
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3 Lessons from the Test Automation School of Hard Knocks
It's no secret that I've led several successful automation projects, however, to get to this point I had to learn quite a few painful lessons the hard way. As the saying goes, experience is the greatest teacher. Well hopefully, you can utilize my experiences to...
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Test Automation for Machine Learning: An Experience Report
Once upon a time I needed to automate tests for machine learning...
Once upon a time I needed to a...
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5 ways to drive your automation engineers away
As someone who regularly interviews candidates for test automation roles, there are common mistakes I see companies making that drive their automation engineers away. On TechBeacon, I've written about the top five actions that may cause your automation engineers to bail. Review your practices and see if...
As someone who regularly inter...
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How to Create a Test Automation Framework from Scratch
As quality initiatives shift left in an agile world, software testing teams realize that they must rely on the fast feedback of automated scenarios for continuous integration and deployment. But even when people understand test automation basics, most automation initiatives fail. There are many reasons why test automation initiatives fall short,...
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Adding a Peripheral View to Test Automation
One reason why human testers are far better at finding bugs than automated scenarios is because testers aren't just validating the expected results. They are also able to recognize unexpected surprises and anomalies within the application. For example, take a look at this application and assume...
One reason why human testers a...
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#TestBash – How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done
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#SeConf16 – How to Get Automation Included in Your Definition of Done
Selenium Conf 2016, London, UK ...
Selenium Conf 2016, London...
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