Dec 28, 2021Play on with Playwright — Part 1Playwright is an open-source web automation library that is built on top of Puppeteer. It is developed by the authors of Puppeteer since v0.14.0 (April 2020) and maintained by Microsoft ever since. I’ve always wanted to figure out what this movement was all about, so I decided to start playing…Web Automation Testing3 min readWeb Automation Testing3 min read
Dec 10, 2021How to configure Nexus from Jenkins with MavenToday I’ve been googling my hands off to find a way to connect to Nexus from Jenkins using Maven. Since this was a though journey for me, I decided to log all my findings in this blogpost. Hopefully this blogpost will help you connect all the dots. In this case…Jenkins2 min readJenkins2 min read
Jul 6, 2021My Scrum Master playbookI remember my first Scrum Master experience back in 2011. Even after following several Agile courses I still have tons of questions. After 10 years of practicing Scrum with several teams I decided to share some of my resources and experiences that worked well in those contexts over the years…Scrum6 min readScrum6 min read
Jun 22, 2021Testautomation architecture?Why is it still a challenge to set up good test automation? In practice I notice that test automation is still seen as a separate competency. Nothing could be further from the truth, because it belongs to a competence that has existed for many years: software development. As with software…Test Automation5 min readTest Automation5 min read
Jun 15, 2021The ICTestAutomation experienceLast few months I’ve had the pleasure of to try out a new test automation framework called ICTestAutomation. It offers you to automate from an user (end-2-end) perspective using scriptless test automation, OCR and image recognition technology. Since I’m a coder myself, I thought of it as yet another record…Test Automation5 min readTest Automation5 min read
Jun 4, 2021The Cucumber PicoContainerAfter 7 years of using other test automation frameworks, I’ve had the pleasure to start using Cucumber (JVM) again. Once you break up your test steps in Cucumber, you need a way to pass state. Back in the day I used a static WebDriver in the TestRunner class. eskape/cucumber-example My Cucumber Examples. Contribute to eskape/cucumber-example development by creating an account on GitHub.github.com Last few…Cucumber2 min readCucumber2 min read
Feb 25, 2016Dialogue with a Scrum MasterI’ve had the privilege to work with a several teams and Scrum Masters over the last few years. On many occasions I had some interesting discussions. I’ve combined some of these subjects into one virtual conversation with an imaginary Scrum Master. Scrum Master: My Team believes I don’t give them…Scrum3 min readScrum3 min read
Nov 23, 2015Example Mapping — Steering the conversationPeople who are familiar with BDD and ATDD already know how useful the three amigos (product owner, tester and developer) session is for talking about what the system under development is supposed to do. But somehow these refinement sessions seem to drain the group’s energy. …Example Mapping4 min readExample Mapping4 min read
Oct 17, 2014Then When GivenPeople who practice BDD and/or ATDD all know how frustrating it can be to write automated examples. Especially when you get stuck overthinking the preconditions of examples. This post describes an alternative approach to writing acceptance tests: write them backwards! Imagine that you are building the very first online phone…Bdd2 min readBdd2 min read
Apr 27, 2012Dealing with bad newsCouple of weeks ago I realised something. As an Agile tester it’s really hard to communicate bugs! Testers are known for bringing bad news, but it is not easy to do it correctly. …Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
