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Quality is a team sport

Quality is a team sport

When I started my journey as a software tester I felt that quality was all about my ability to find the bugs in the software I was testing. I now know that there is no way I or even a team of testers can assure quality. It is down to the ENTIRE team.

FAQ – “New Microsoft Edge” and test automation

FAQ – “New Microsoft Edge” and test automation

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…

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Launching Selenium WebDriver in .NET Core the easy way

Launching Selenium WebDriver in .NET Core the easy way

This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series Launching WebDrivers in .NET Core the easy way

In this post I am finally pleased to sum up the last of my experiences releasing Open Source libraries to help launching Selenium WebDriver instances in .NET Core projects. Whilst actually the last of the posts chronologically in this series I am placing it as post number 1, feel free to skip to the next one and read through before coming back if you want the story in the order that I wrote it. Writing the code of an Open…

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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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