As front end developers, our job is to present visual information that looks good and gives users cues to help them understand content quickly. Even a static, text-only web page…
Automated developer testing is simpler than ever before. All you need to do is pick two frameworks: a test automation framework for writing and running test code, and a browser automation framework for simulating a web browser. This post explains what these frameworks do, examines the most popular options, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each respective framework.
It’s not often that software testing makes the news, but when it does, it’s usually because something within the test automation has gone spectacularly wrong. At 8:05 AM on January…
At some point while each of us were growing up, we wished that the adults in our lives would just disappear. They made our lives miserable with their arbitrary rules…
Have you ever asked yourself why all apps aren’t web apps? Well, this is actually already the case on desktops and most of the apps you use at home and/or…
It is probably safe to assume that any developers reading this article are already testing their applications. At the bare minimum, you’re testing the feature you’re working on as you…
At an industry event recently I had the opportunity to listen to a keynote by Janet Gregory, co-author of “Agile Testing” and “More Agile Testing”. During the talk, Janet asked…
Traditional software products render essentially the same on any device. Microsoft Office, for example, looks the same on every personal computer. Imagine taking Microsoft Word exactly as it runs on…
Many years ago, I heard a senior executive at one of my companies make a statement that changed the way I would think about things for a long time. The…
The agile development movement is making testers shift their tests to the left. From a practical perspective, this means that the testers are getting closer to the frontend developers, and…
In a previous blog post of mine “Embracing Agility: A Practical Approach for Software Testers”, I discussed how an agile team changes the role of the software tester. Instead of being…
While everyone knows that printed newspaper sales are dwindling, the interesting story is in online subscriptions, which are exploding. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are becoming the new normal, eliminating lookup,…