This blog gives you an update on Hiring at Qxf2 from 2019 until now. We believe in trying out new things and keep evolving from these experiences. So we tried the popular job portal Indeed, a startup hiring consultant called Hiring Monk and we also updated our Careers page as Qxf2 has evolved over the past years. Indeed: I was […]
Hiring updates 2019….2020
Testing with Celery
As part of the pairing project activity at Qxf2 – I had to demonstrate a simple working example that included Celery and it’s monitoring tool called Flower. I knew a little bit of background as I have tested a product that includes Celery. I read the Celery guide, a few related articles, and simple examples. I also came across the […]
My Hackathon Project on Arduino
It was Hackathon 2018 and I was very excited to choose a hardware project and try it! So I picked Arduino, chose to build plus test a DC Door Bell using Arduino. This experience was similar to looking at a recipe book and trying out new dishes – 2 entrees, 2 mains, and 1 dessert. This blog shares my experience […]
Comics for easier conversations – November 2016
This is part of the series of ‘Comics for easier conversations’, in which I share work related cartoons. This November post has comics related to work scenarios like missing an important detail, deadline dates and applying a new concept. Listed comics: 1) When you are testing a few functionalities and as an oversight, you missed an important one. 2) At […]
Comics for easier conversations at your workplace
This post gives you a few comic strips and a related work scenario to use them. I like comics and comic strips. I actively use comics at my workplace. Comics make it easier to make my point. I use images which set contexts and help me frame or re-frame my point of view. In this series of blog posts, I […]
Better pytest failure summaries
We, at Qxf2, are really liking pytest. It is the most Pythonic test runner we have come across so far. We started using it with our GUI automation. We realized one thing very quickly – pytest’s reporting capabilities are configured to suit unit testing. We needed to reconfigure pytest’s reporting to suit our GUI automation framework. It was also hard […]