This blog is an outcome of a few adjustments that I made while moving from Java to Python when automating my tests. This will help you with basic pointers about how Python syntax is different from Java. Why this post? As an experienced Java automation engineer, when I started my journey into Automation using Python, I had this very basic […]
Learning Python when you already know Java
Saving cProfile stats to a csv file
As part of testing one of my client code, I used cProfile to profile some code. Though I had never tried profiling code before, I found cProfile easy to use. However, I faced some challenges on how to use the stats which cProfile provided. I looked at ways to use the stats but I didn’t find an option where I […]
Beginners guide for Git Setup on Windows
As part of our internship program, we encourage interns to make use of Git as a version control system due to a whole lot of benefits it provides, if you don’t know what Git is then you can read the blog – get started with Git Why this post? During our internship program, we have seen many fresh graduates struggling to get […]
Old SSL certificate being served by nginx
I had let the SSL certificate on one of my properties expire. I purchased a new certificate and installed it on the server. But the server seemed to still return the old, expired certificate. I had restarted the nginx service several times and yet nothing happened. I ended up spending an annoying amount of time on this issue as StackOverflow […]
Qxf2 is hiring (April 2019)
This is a short post to let regular readers of this blog know that Qxf2 is hiring. We have multiple openings for: a) QA managers b) Senior QA engineers The job is limited to people staying in India. You can apply to these jobs by writing to Arun ([email protected]) OR Smitha ([email protected]). You can learn more about the kind of […]
Debugging in Python using pytest.set_trace()
Debugging the code in Python is a bit tricky when compared to other programming languages. Most of us use print statements in the code at multiple places to print the variable values and figure out the problem. Or sometimes use time.sleep() statements to pause the python program to check what’s going on in the code. Recently we started tracing our […]
Developing a simple Kivy application
At Qxf2 Services we do hackathon yearly once. We believe that this gives good learning and we can believe in ourselves do our work faster. This year, I took Kivy and developed a desktop application. You usually think is it possible for us to develop an application without having basic knowledge of the framework? Yes, you can do it. I […]
Automation testing of Text to Speech web app
As a part of Qxf2Services Hackathon, I had picked up a project to automate testing of a readily available Text to Speech web app. To follow along, I assume you have some familiarity with Python, Selenium. Overview of Text to Speech Demo app To try out the testing of Text to Speech, I was looking for a readily available web app which can […]
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 […]
Generate MySQL test data using FillDB
We have an application which needs to be tested with a bunch of test data in the MySQL database. For generating random data, we used to run scripts with INSERT statements to generate the dummy data or in some cases wrote stored procedures. We were looking out for a tool which can auto-populate a database with loads of test data […]