At Qxf2, we’ve successfully integrated Great Expectations into majority of our projects. We now have GitHub workflows in place to run Great Expectations checkpoints before deploying our applications to production. However, as our test suite expanded, we encountered a few challenges: 1. Triggering valid checkpoints. 2. Aggregating checkpoint results. To address these issues, we turned to pytest. In this post, […]
Use pytest to run Great Expectations checkpoints
Build a semantic search tool using FAISS
This post provides an overview of implementing semantic search. Why? Because too often, we notice testers skip testing more complex features like autocomplete. This might be ok in most applications. But in domain specific applications, testing autocomplete capabilities of the product is important. Since testers can benefit from understanding implementation details, in this post, we will look at how autocomplete […]
Context-based question answering using LLM
Companies are going to want to query their own internal documents – especially with the rise of LLMs and improvements in AI. Qxf2 has already heard of several CEOs that want to use AI/ML models to glean insights from internal knowledge stores. What does this mean for a tester? Well, you can expect to test such systems in the coming […]
Add Google Sign-In to your Flask app
Recently, I integrated SSO with Google Sign-In into a web application using the oauthlib library. While working on this project, I found plenty of resources on SSO and oauthlib separately, but struggled to find a tutorial that could guide me through the setup of Google Sign-In using oauthlib in a timely manner. Therefore, I’ve written this post to provide a […]
Handling set new password prompt with Paramiko
Why this post? I hit an issue at one of our client recently – beginning from the latest version of the application, the remote server will prompt for a new password in the first login attempt, the password that comes out of the box will take you to the set new password prompt where you need to set a new […]
Setup Linux testing environment on Windows using WSL1
Update: This solution works on WSL1 only Why this post? If you are one of those testers that had been using a Windows machine and have had to setup a Linux system for running your Selenium automation test, this post is for you. I had to setup a Linux system for running the automation tests for one of our clients. […]
Identify tech words from a text
As part of the pairing project activity at Qxf2 – pick a project that can produce a meaningful output in 5 hours and work on it collaborating with your team mates, I picked this project to identify the tech keywords from a text using NLTK module. This post covers the steps I followed to find the tech related words in […]
Automate creating new boards on Trello using Python
This post contains a brief summary of my Qxf2 Hackathon project. It also has a link to a GitHub repository with some useful code that you can use to interact with Trello. We, at Qxf2, are agile & our sprints last a week. At the end of every week, someone (we rotate the responsibility) creates a new Trello board, add […]
State of Testing Survey: 2018
Hey, Testers. It’s new year!!! and State of Testing Survey 2018 has gone live. Please consider participating in the survey and start the year by contributing to the testing community. Why take the survey?: This is a worldwide survey that tries to identify the existing state of testing. Taking the survey is one step into bringing more transparency into our […]
pytest: Cross browser, cross platform Selenium tests
We showed you how to run tests on BrowserStack using pytest in our previous post – pytest and Browserstack. We had an example test and ran it across one browser from the command line argument. What if we need to run it across different browser versions, platforms and platform versions? Why this post? pytest responds really well when we run […]