Like many people, I have found 2020 very challenging. I always feel that there is not enough time for everything I need to do, but this year especially I have noticed how much multiple priorities reduce my productivity. When juggling multiple projects what can you do to maximise focus, and minimise disruption? Here are my thoughts and ideas that I find are helping me to clear the fog. The myth of effective multi-tasking. My wife will tell you that I…
I’m worn out from a major release, the world is in lockdown and it is late. In this post I reflect on how deploying ‘Software As A Service’ (SAAS) in the cloud affects what I worry about testing.
If you follow browser development at all you can’t have helped but noticed Microsoft making a huge song and dance about the latest version of the Edge browser. It does potentially cause some changes for those of us who are responsible for testing cross browser support, so I thought I would try to put together a list of questions and answers. It is brand new and I certainly don’t know everything, so if you have more questions, or want to…
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…
I am ridiculously excited to finally be getting back to writing code for this project. In fact I have spent far too long coding, and have left the blogging for a while so I have plenty to catch up on. Episode IV – A new beginning If you followed through my previous posts around building a Selenium WebDriver test framework in Java, you may remember that the last thing that I completed was to get it running cross platform. Anyone…