In a keynote at Agile Testing Days USA 2019, Janet Gregory and her daughter Susan Bligh shared a great diagram created by Dan Ashby. It highlights that while testing is something that is often not explicitly talked about in DevOps, it is present at every stage in the process. As I reflected on this and … [Read more…]
It’s Not About the Pipeline Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment are important in DevOps, but once your pipeline is established and verified it just becomes part of the scenery. It’s a feature that probably shipped months or even years ago. At most some type of regression testing of it may come up but its not … [Read more…]
Good selectors can be hard to find. It’s always nice when the elements we need have automation friendly attributes, but sometimes thats not an option. These wildcards can help when you just need to match on part of what attributes are present. Contains *= There are times where finding a unique substring within a value … [Read more…]
When deciding to read A Practical Guide To Testing in Devops by Katrina Clokie for #30DaysOfTesting. I wanted to focus on avoiding the temptation to get destination oriented and just finish the book. In the vein of Testopsies (a concept I learned about at from Michael Bolton at CAST2016), I wanted to give time for … [Read more…]
One of the most popular ways the TDD process is described is referred to as the red-green-refactor cycle. Start with a failing test (red), make the test pass (green), clean up and polish so you are leaving things in better shape than when you arrived (refactor). It’s a very relatable process that can help you … [Read more…]
As we take inspiration from TDD practices, an important thing to recognize is that TDD is a discipline not a solution. The first two laws of test driven testing are intended to increase the testers awareness of their actions, and reduce the scope of testing. We need to step beyond thinking just about what you … [Read more…]
Think Test Driven Development only applies to developers? This series will explore how testers can use the aspects of TDD to help structure their testing to enable the same tight feedback loop and positive outcomes that TDD provides. The first law of Test Driven Testing challenges a tester to not begin testing until they … [Read more…]
Think Test Driven Development only applies to developers? This series will explore how testers can use the aspects of TDD to help structure their testing to enable the same tight feedback loop and positive outcomes that TDD provides. Test Driven Development is rooted in a test first approach to developing software. This is concretely defined … [Read more…]
Part 4 of a series of Core values for Regression Testing What is Conformity to act in accordance with prevailing standards or customs A second definition brings us closer to showing the holistic value testers can help bring to software bring into harmony or accord As software is released we naturally develop both explicit and … [Read more…]
Part 3 of a series of Core values for Regression Testing What is Behavior? the way in which something functions or operates Behavior is the personality of the software under test. Behavior stretches beyond just what your software does to also include how your software does things. What are Bugs? an unexpected defect, fault, flaw, … [Read more…]