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 […]
Old SSL certificate being served by nginx
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 […]
My Hackathon Project on Arduino
It was Hackathon 2018 and I was very excited to choose a hardware project and try it! So I picked Arduino, chose to build plus test a DC Door Bell using Arduino. This experience was similar to looking at a recipe book and trying out new dishes – 2 entrees, 2 mains, and 1 dessert. This blog shares my experience […]
State of Testing Survey: 2019
Hello, testers! The State of Testing Survey 2019 is live now. Please do participate in the survey and help out the testing world to gain better knowledge about the state of testing. Why take this survey? This is the biggest survey in the worldwide that tries to explore the existing characteristics, practices, and problems facing the testing community today. Participating in […]
Python Trello API utility script
Python Trello API Util is a set of scripts to automate various Trello tasks like creating Trello Boards, assigning people to Board, creating cards, copying cads etc. It is built using Python Requests library and was part of a Hackathon held at Qxf2 Services. Why this post? In case you have used Trello, you will be familiar with the process […]