In this post, we will outline how we reroute traffic meant for a specific IP back to a synthetic device running on localhost. This is useful for testers who work with products that monitor IT infrastructure, infrastructure management application testers and network testers. We will be using a couple of Python modules (fake-switches, snmpsim) and editing the iptables of the […]
Rerouting outbound traffic to a simulated device on localhost
Exploring pytest command line options
This post will serve as a quick tutorial for using pytest command-line options. Anyone who is new to pytest will benefit from this article. Pytest comes with many useful command-line options right out of the box. When I started learning pytest, I had to search through a lot of material available on the official pytest website as well as other […]
Posting messages on a Skype group channel using Python
I recently wrote a script to post messages on Skype using Python. I used the excellent SkPy module. The module’s documentation is very good but examples on how to post messages to group chats was sparse. I had to muddle around, try things out with the Python interpreter and figure things out. In fact, I am not sure if I […]
Identify tech words from a text
As part of the pairing project activity at Qxf2 – pick a project that can produce a meaningful output in 5 hours and work on it collaborating with your team mates, I picked this project to identify the tech keywords from a text using NLTK module. This post covers the steps I followed to find the tech related words in […]
Using cProfile to get some useful statistics for Python based tests
In general, when we have some performance problem with our code, profilers can be used to help identify where the problem actually lies. It can be used to check how long the functions defined in your code took to execute, how many times a particular function is being called etc. We were able to use cProfile to find out some […]
Anonymize data using Python Faker
We have an application which holds some sensitive survey information. Now since we couldn’t share the data with everyone we wanted a good way to Anonymize the data so that we can handover the development to anyone. We found Faker as a good library that generates fake data. Why this post As a tester, we may need to work with […]
Problem Steps Recorder
Recently when I was searching for the screen capture tool to report my issues to QA team, I discovered that windows already have an inbuilt hidden tool in Windows 7, 8 and 10 versions called Problem Steps Recorder(PSR). Do you know about Problem Steps Recorder already? If you feel no, scroll down to learn more. Problem Steps Recorder is a […]
Learning Python when you already know Java
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 […]
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 […]