In a previous post, we showed you how to get started with running your Selenium automation on BrowserStack. In this post Team Qxf2 will show you how to modify your existing automation scripts to run on different platforms, browsers and devices. Since a lot of our readers seem to like mobile automation, we have chosen to run these tests on […]
Selenium & BrowserStack: Browsers, devices as parameters
Cool things I read this week (21-Sep-2014)
I read. A lot. And these are the five most interesting things I read this week. Its a mix of making software, satire, chess and culture. 1. The case for a rudimentary 1.0 2. Kinds of process engineers hate 3. Edgar Schein talks culture 4. Funny fake news about Mangalyaan 5. Karpov anecdote: May be I am better? My notes […]
HL7 introduction for software testers
If you test software in the healthcare domain, it is likely that you have heard of the beast known as HL7. HL7 or Health Level 7 is one standard for transferring data between information systems in a hospital. The data relates to key events in a patient’s stay like admission, lab tests, surgery time and notes, any medication administered, x-Rays […]
August lunch and learn
I am a big fan of Fog Creek and their philosophy towards building a business. As luck would have it, I stumbled into starting a company that provides testing services. Inspired by this Spolsky article from 2005,I want Qxf2 to be a place with fantastic working conditions for testers. As a group, we have been taking active steps towards that […]
Understanding Python decorators
Problem: Some testers shy away from unit testing because they are uncomfortable with the concept of annotations. Why this post? We often stop learning a topic when we need to apply a concept that we are not fully comfortable with. I noticed this pattern in testers when it came to unit testing. A lot of unit testing frameworks, like JUnit and […]
Cool things I read this week (14-Sep-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week is about dinosaurs, changes in software, space, mathematics and a funny spoof. 1. Largest predatory dinosaur was part duck and part crocodile 2. A challenge from Dyson 3. NASA’s version of big things come in small packages 4. Ikea mocking Apple with the […]
Python unit test integration with Jenkins
Problem: Jenkins is still somewhat of a black box to testers. This post is for the hands on tester looking to integrate their Python unit tests with Jenkins. Why this post? Jenkins is an extremely popular continuous integration tool. Jenkins is often setup and maintained by the development team or I.T. team in many companies. Testers know about Jenkins but […]
Get started with JMeter in 30 minutes
We are trying something new – videos! Saurabh Chhabra, a Qxf2 employee, has put together a fantastic video to get started with JMeter in less than 30 minutes. Saurabh covers a whole range of JMeter topics like installation, test plans, thread groups, configuration elements, samplers, assertions, listeners, handling parameters and a whole host of JMeter gotchas. The application under test […]
Cool things I read this week (07-Sep-2014)
I read. A lot. And I share the 5 best things I read every week. 1. Bloatware and the 80/20 myth 2. The best error message troll. Ever. 3. How Spring security hooks to CAS 4. The hazards of going on auto-pilot 5. Information immunity My notes 1. Bloatware and the 80/20 myth I needed to reread this article. Primarily […]
JUint Asserts and Matchers
Problem: JUnit tutorials are often written by testers with a reasonable amount of unit checking expertise Why this post? There are plenty of JUnit tutorials available online. They are often written by testers with a reasonable amount of unit checking experience. The problem is that experts and beginners see things differently. I began noticing that beginners often read these JUnit […]