Progress on the configuration viewer test tool I described in my last post is going well so far. Electron is proving to be a great platform for quickly prototyping and developing this kind of tool. Because Electron is essentially a web browser, there's very little wasted time when making alterations to the code. So far... Continue Reading →
This may seem like an obvious tip to many, but I've seen a few applications for automated tester roles at my company that fail to do this. When creating methods that interact with elements on a web page, remember to use Selenium WebDriver's By locators. These By locators are super versatile, and will allow you... Continue Reading →
Hopefully you already know the importance of using the Page Object Model to keep your code organised. To keep your code maintainable it's a good practice to have page inherit from a single abstract "BasePage" class. This allows us to have one central place that defines general actions that our pages can perform, and allows... Continue Reading →
The first job that I worked as a QA/Software Tester was for a tiny company. There were 3 software developers at the time I joined, and I was their first tester. The product was a website that let users do some basic filing tasks, to keep track of their data a little more easily. It... Continue Reading →
