One of the biggest mistakes by a human being is to expose credentials/important data unknowingly. To avoid that we should be looking for some solution. So in this blog, I am going to share the solution to avoid such mistakes. we can commit other changes we want, without any issues. What is the solution? Pre-commit hook is the solution to […]
Adding a pre-commit hook to make sure the important data do not get leaked.
Extract message from AWS CloudWatch log record using log record pointer
This post shows you a short example of how to use the CloudWatch log record pointer to extract message from the AWS CloudWatch log record. Background Recently I have written end to end test for skype sender lambda. In the end to end test, I have compared message from AWS SQS queue with AWS CloudWatch logs. I have used log […]
How to conduct ‘Round 2’ interviews at Qxf2
Qxf2 reserves Round 2 of our three-round job interview solely to evaluate if the candidate can learn and apply new concepts quickly. During this round we use one of approximately fifteen exercises. This post goes into great detail on how an interviewer is supposed to conduct Round 2 when using the ‘Fork a repository and fix an error’ exercise. Interviewers […]
Practice your keyboard shortcuts
This blog helps you to use keyboards in your daily routine and how can you improve it. Here, I have created a set of exercises by observing the daily operations testers at Qxf2 perform on vi editor, Git bash and Visual Studio Code. If you are in the habit of using Unix based systems or an IDE. Why this post? […]
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 […]
Rejoining workforce after a long break
This blog is to assure women like me, who have rejoined the workforce after a long break, to continue to believe in their strengths and to help them find solace in their day to day work. After a lot of internal conflicts and enough thought-process, you must have decided to finally rejoin the workforce. Every small thing might look different […]
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 […]
How to stop Pact Mock Service manually?
In this blog, I will discuss one troubleshooting tip for Pact Mock Service not stopping, after Pact Contract test completed. The console shows a connection error, not directly related to the solution worked out for me. However, when I stopped Pact Mock Service manually, I was able to proceed with the Pact test. Background I am using the following code […]
Writing Contract test for API endpoint using Pact
This post shows you a short example of how to use the Python module Pact to write Consumer Contract tests against Provider Contract. We will use Trello API endpoints for writing sample test. Note that this blog will only cover one sample test. Testers can write many more for a different response such as unauthorized access, server not found. What […]
The Weather Shopper application – a tool for QA
Qxf2 has been using a web application called Weather Shopper to train our interns on Python and Selenium, interview candidates that list GUI automation as a skill on their resume, validate the capabilities of new GUI automation frameworks, etc. While we shared a write up about this tool several months ago on Reddit, I realized we hadn’t shown it to […]