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 […]

Replace logging with Loguru

We have a bunch of logging happening in our test popular automation framework and we were using standard Python logging module. We always wanted to make our debugging process simple and make logging look pleasant. Recently we came across the Python module Loguru which provides easier file logging with rotation / retention / compression and also provides good string formatting. […]

Peer-checkins to combat loneliness in a fully remote company

In this post, I am sharing the concept of ‘peer-checkins’ that Qxf2 (a fully remote company) has been using to combat the loneliness that comes from working fully-remote. A ‘peer-checkin’ is a 15-30 minute/week talk with a group of colleagues that is completely non-technical. It is similar to a water-cooler conversation at a co-located office. I am outlining the rules […]

Arduino project – Remote based toll gate and automatic parking indicator system

This post details about building a wireless toll gate and an automatic parking indicator system using Arduino. It will help anyone (including a beginner) who is interested to try their hands-on building and testing an Arduino project using IR remote / receiver, Ultrasonic sensor and servo motor. Project brief The idea is, When a vehicle approaches the toll gate, a […]

Deploying a web application using Kubernetes

This post outlines the steps I followed in deploying a website in Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a platform for automating deployment, scaling and management of our application across a cluster of hosts. It works with a different range of container tools and the one we will be using here is the popular Docker. I have divided the process into 3 main […]

Sparse Checkout using Jenkins

I was recently working on a project where I required only a particular folder inside a bitbucket repository to be cloned and tracked on the server. This was when I stumbled upon the sparse checkout feature that Jenkins offered. I decided to write this short post so that it might help you in case you have a similar requirement as […]

Pytest, argparse.ArgumentError and the -V: conflicting option

The CI tests for our open sourced framework suddenly started failing with: argparse.ArgumentError: argument -V/–ver: conflicting option string: -V. Pytest was clearly telling us that the -V option was being used elsewhere. But it was not clear about where the ‘used elsewhere’ was located. Further, while we knew what the error meant but could not understand why the error would […]

Sending Email through Amazon SES with Flask App

This post is about sending automated Emails with Amazon Simple Email Service(SES). We wanted to explore Amazon SES and hence implemented a sample Flask app to send an automated email. What is Amazon SES? Email is the heartline of any business these days. So sending an automated email,is an important part of business, whether it is the response to a […]