As testers, we are always looking for various tools that can help us enhance our testing. Our go-to tools are mostly defect tracking tools, exploratory testing of the product, and documentation. While these have been important, what if we could gain a fresh perspective by exploring the development activity? How might this aid us in aligning our testing efforts more […]
Insights from Git Logs for Testing teams
Technical testing at Qxf2: Q1 of 2022
Qxf2 often brands our type of testing as technical testing. We do not care about “manual testing” or “automated testing”. We struggle to explain what that means to other folks who are stuck in the “manual vs automation” mindset. Technical testing is one of those terms that is easier to experience than to explain. Given how often we need to […]
Transitioning to testing loosely coupled microservices
Testing loosely coupled microservices, at least for me, has proven to be much more challenging than testing monoliths. I feel like a beginner again – especially when there are many teams and many independently deployable services. I often feel overwhelmed with how much there is to consider! In this post, I present a mental model that is helping me think […]
State of Testing Survey: 2021
Hey testers, hope you all are fine and safe!! 2020 nightmare is about to end in a few days and the State of Testing Survey 2021 has gone live. Please do take part in the survey and help the testing community to identify the current state of testing. Why take this survey? This survey is conducted globally that tries to […]
Testers, practice testing a machine learning algorithm!
Testers, you now have an app you can use to practice testing a machine learning algorithm. We have written and hosted a simple sentence classifier for testers to practice testing a machine learning algorithm. Play with it and let us know what fun bugs you discover. Hint: Testing this app is fun because there are several bugs that are not […]
Chrome not reachable error when running Selenium Python test via Jenkins
Recently when I tried to run my Selenium test on the Chrome browser via Jenkins on the ubuntu machine, I hit with “Chrome not reachable” error whereas when I tried to run directly on the ubuntu machine without triggering the test from Jenkins, it executed with no errors. The same Jenkins job was running fine with the Firefox browser. Problem: When I […]
Exploratory Testing using Chrome Extension
This post is for those who do a lot of exploratory testing. Exploratory testing is an important part of the agile environment, it helps testers to keep up with rapid development. It’s considered a phase where tester learns, does test design, and executes it simultaneously. This article helps the tester by highlighting how using a plugin from chrome called “Exploratory […]
Simulate hardware devices and switches for testing
Why and Who is this POST for? There can be situations where QA or Developers need real hardware devices for suppose when developers need to test their code or when QA has to do end to end testing with it. I am one of those QA’s who was wondering how to simulate the hardware devices like linux machine, cisco routers and […]
Getting started with Unit Testing using mock in Python
Unit testing is considered as a vital phase in software testing. Anyone who has been involved in the software development life cycle will have encountered some form of testing. Although the aim of testing is to find bugs, it cannot guarantee the absence of other faults, no matter how creative the test cases are designed. Unit testing enables a more […]
Build and Test iOS app with Qxf2 Framework and Appium.
Why this post? In this post, we are going to look into, how to test an iOS app with Python-based testing framework using appium. This is a step by step procedure, right from building an app, writing a test for iOS app in Python using Qxf2 test automation framework and then actual testing of app with Appium on Mac OS […]