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Month: January 2019

Testability, interfaces and unit tests for Dummies (and junior SDETs)

Testability, interfaces and unit tests for Dummies (and junior SDETs)

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Launching WebDrivers in .NET Core the easy way

Having got to version 2.0.0 of my WebDriverFactory with working system tests and CI builds it was time to extend things a little. This could be considered YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It) but I quite like to have a Manager class that deals with getting and closing down WebDriver instances. The idea is that the Manager knows the specifics of the driver that I want to use, and will return a given instance, or a new instance on request….

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Test Automation: Test levels for Dummies (and recruiters)

Test Automation: Test levels for Dummies (and recruiters)

As I was sitting waiting for the train to work for the first time in 2019 I read an amusing LinkedIn article by Matt Roberts, one of my recruiter contacts, about the difference between unit and integration tests. So this reply is for you Matt….. I would suggest that there are more levels of testing than two, as illustrated by Jason Gorman in the tweet below. What should we test at different levels of our “test pyramid”? pic.twitter.com/fbxqCaEUs1 — jasongorman…

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