Let’s talk about the Page Object Model, the pattern we adore in web automation. We all love patterns. Take for example, the Singleton, which I wrote about in the past, and its inherent evily-ness. While we can argue if Singletons are evil or not, I just need to say the Read more…
BDD (behavior-driven development) sounds great in theory, but how does it look like in practice? In this webinar, I show you. Starting with writing scenarios, adding the step definitions and the code behind it, until we have a full feature running. But we’ll go a bit deeper than this, though. Read more…
Just got back from Rotterdam, and what a great conference, Test Automation Days. Here’s a summary of my experience. I’ve arrived early on Tuesday, and walked around Rotterdam, as my room wasn’t ready yet. The weather we got all week, for early March, was very nice and warm. Ish. Wednesday Read more…
Let’s talk about languages and clean tests. We use langauges all the time. I’m using one right now! And you can understand me, because you know the same one too! Amazing!! Ok, I know this seems trivial, but in automated tests we use other languages. And I’m not talking about Read more…
Let’s talk about knowledge, and where it goes, after you’ve walked away from the code. Sounds confusing, I know, but stay with me. Ok, let’s look at an example. Here’s my demo app. This is a registration app, as you can plainly see. But we’ll focus today on two features. Read more…
I work with many clients on improving their unit testing skills. Most of them approach me with the starting premise of “we don’t write unit tests at all”, or “not enough”. That may be true, but I usually explain that while unit tests do help in a lot of cases, Read more…
Let’s talk about our expectations from automation. Specifically, the expectation that our automated tests will find bugs. This expectation leads to some risky decisions, which I’ll get to in the end. You program the code, debug it, it works. You even have an automated test that proves the code works. Read more…
Want some BDD? It’s coming your way. BDD, or Behavior-driven development, usually comes up when a team decides to do end-to-end level automation, and suddenly BDD frameworks join the chat. But BDD is not really a tool. Understanding the methodology, its goals, and how BDD frameworks facilitate them, is crucial Read more…
Let’s talk about test generation. Because ChatGPT or Copilot, or whatever you’re using, will help you to generate lots of them in a blink of an eye. And someone needs to ruin the party. I’ve seen test generation in all sorts of ways for more than 20 years. Yes, 20 Read more…
Web applications, on their front ends, are HTML pages. The origin of this HTML is some code in the server, that in some way, delivers a complete HTML page to the browser. The browser renders the HTML, and brings all the necessary design and images. It also processes the interactions Read more…