Topic
Testing
13 posts · all topics
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What testing taught me about running technologyThere are years of testing posts behind this site, and they aren’t a time capsule. The habits I rely on running technology now are the ones testing taught me.
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Recruiting test consultantsI’ve been recruiting testers for over a decade there for various companies performing various roles and I feel like I’ve become better at it over time. There are many different aspects of a person and their history that come in to play when interviewing applicants.
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Data testing areas of focusI’ve just recently come off working with a client in the big data space, where we were looking to verify over 9 billions records of data. This was a big undertaking so we had to narrow down the areas of the data that we looked at for verification. It’s worth saying that I wouldn’t usually …
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Why I don’t value test certificationCertification for testers seems to have been a hot topic for a while and many testers seem unsure whether it’s the right thing to do for their career or not. If you want to work in the USA or India as a software tester then you will almost certainly need an ISTQB qualification. In that …
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The problem with test coverage“Test coverage is useless” Or… “Test coverage is everything” Two opposing extremes which I’ve heard recently and many times through my career. As with most things, I think the truth lies somewhere in between.
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Unbloating the UI automationI’m not entirely sure “unbloating” is a word. In fact I’m 95% sure it’s not. Regardless of that, this is about taking those huge, automation packs for the UI and chucking them in the bin as soon as possible.
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Pragmatism in TestingA really important part of being a tester is the ability to be pragmatic when the situation calls for it. It’s important to have principles and values that you are guided by but there are times where you might need to compromise these to get the job done. I don’t think this should be seen …
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Testing your contracts (5/5)In parts 1-4 of this series, I’ve looked at what contract testing is, introduced the pact framework and showed how you can use it to create consumer side and provider side code to ensure a specific contract scenario. Now I’m going to look at building pact in to your pipeline and tips on how to …
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Testing your contracts (4/5)If you’ve been ready the parts I’ve written so far, you’ll know we’ve gone through what contract testing is, the pact framework and the consumer side code for a specific scenario. In this part, we’ll be examining the provider side code of the same scenario. I’d therefore recommend checking out the earlier parts if you …
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Testing your contracts (3/5)We’ve already looked at contract testing and the PACT framework and in part 3 we’ll be looking at using that framework to create your consumer side contracts.
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Testing your contracts (2/5)Pact In part 1, we looked at what contract testing is and the gap it can cover in an automation strategy. In part 2, we’re going to look at Pact, which is the most widely used contract testing technology and how its framework implements contract testing.
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Testing your contracts (1/5)Contract.. what now? I have been doing a lot of work with contract testing recently and wanted to do a blog series on something, so this seems as good a thing as anything else! And it’s more technical and I want to do a mix of technical and non-technical blogs. So, contract testing… some of …
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Elitism in testingSince the first half of 2018, I’ve been really bad at blog updates and I want to change this and start blogging much more regularly. So I’m going to write some shorter blogs to get me back in to it and here is the first! I’m still going to write the longer articles, but I’ll …