• Parkinson’s law in software testing

  Coffee was brewing for the third time. It was dead silent in the dorms. Only a dim screen lit the room and steady tap of the keyboard took flight. It was 3am and the deadline was approaching fast.That was the story of my life. When I studied back at the University of Oulu in Finland I got myself into trouble on a regular basis. I procrastinated on starting with my project reports and essays for days. My small apartment was super tidy, I had taken care of calling both grand moms twice during the week and even dragged my ass to the gym every day.Have you experienced similar situations? Basically everything except the important paper was taken care of. My ways of postponing the inevitable were clever and creative. But the last evening before the deadline always came. Usually around 5pm I brewed my first coffee and got to work.I did the same drill every semester with every report paper and every project. And never failed once. The work got magically done, no matter how big it was. In the morning I stormed in to the course assistants room and delivered my results. It’s uncanny how naturally everything worked out when the deadline came. It’s always the final hours before the deadline that are the most productive hours for me.Last year I started a new project, because I wanted to write a book about software testing. Once again I found myself filling the days up with pointless meetings, email and social media combined[…]

  18.02.2019 | 8:08 קרא עוד...

• European Testing Conference SpeedMeet - How To?

  Picture a conference you went to, alone. You don't know anyone, not sure if they want to talk about exploratory testing (your favorite) or test automation (not your favorite) and not feeling like you have the energy to go and push yourself on random strangers. You show up, sit in a table, watching people around you discuss and listen until it is again time to head to a session.As a socially anxious extrovert, I have had huge problems with conferences. I want to talk to people,  but the need of taking the first step and finding out if they want to talk to me drains me. My usual recipe is to be a speaker, and have people approach me. But the same issue drove me to figure out other designs for my conference, and SpeedMeet was born.SpeedMeet puts together three insights: Pairing people up with a rule to introduce is an effective way of building relationships. The rule helped people at Scan Agile meet, and we wanted to do more of sessions where social interaction wasn't emergent but facilitated. The meeting needs an artifact that introduced pull over push in introductions. This piece we found in Jurgen Appelo's talk in Agile Serbia, and combining it my personal aversion to talking about beer (push information often provided in the tester community), the connection to the right dynamic was evident.  The high-volume high-interaction event needs an escape route and permission. This piece became evident with experimenting with large crowds listening to feedback. […]

  18.02.2019 | 8:01 קרא עוד...

• Inspecting Elements for writing XPath, CSS Selector in Chrome

  The most important part in any kind of automation is, identifying various elements over which we want to perform an action and when it comes to web application or android application automation using Selenium WebDriver or Appium, we fall for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer to find the right set of XPath or CSS selector. For the same, all mostThe post Inspecting Elements for writing XPath, CSS Selector in Chrome appeared first on Abode QA.

  18.02.2019 | 5:23 קרא עוד...

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