GitHub Project Management with GitHub GitHub's project management capabilities: The good, the bad, and the interesting
GitHub GitHub As Your Primary DevOps Toolchain What you need to know before selecting GitHub as your primary DevOps toolchain.
Selenium Connecting to Chromium Edge with Selenium 3 and 4 Alpha As you may or may not be aware, Edge is moving away from the EdgeHTML and Chakra engines and over to Chromium. Unfortunately getting your test code to work with the new Chromium Edge browser isn’t as easy as updating your web driver.
Bye Bye Coded UI Earlier this year Microsoft announced the end of life for Coded UI. Visual Studio 2019 will be the last version that includes this feature. That can present a challenge to Microsoft shops that are still building and testing thick client applications. The good news
Becoming A Software Test Engineer What a test engineer isBefore we go into how to become a test engineer we should be clear about what a test engineer is. A test engineer is a software developer. Test engineers create software to aid the QA effort. This can include writing
Selenium The Browser/OS Combination Problem The ProblemYou have N number of tests, O number of browsers and P number of operating systems. If you don’t think too much, it doesn’t sound that bad. Besides your using grid or Sauce Labs or something similar; how bad can it
Build 2016 Themes The Microsoft 2016 Build Conference has come to an end. It was a very fun 3 days. From HoloLens’s to Roslyn to Xamarin there was nerdy goodness everywhere. When reflecting on the events it occurred to me that there were several reoccurring themes.
MTM Uploading automated test results to MTM made "easy" As you may know, Microsoft Test Manager is capable of running both manual and automated tests. This is great because it allows you to manage your testing in one centralized location. The problem is that the setup can be pretty involved and a lot
Brewing Great Coffee Before We StartLet me acknowledge not everyone sharers the same taste. I like smooth medium roasts with earthy flavor; that will be my focus. This is not a judgement on those of you that love your Starbucks, it is just not what I like.
Selenium Intro to Selenium Grid What is Grid?Grid, otherwise known as the Selenium standalone server, is a jar file. The grid jar can be run as a hub or node. Nodes register with hubs. Registering lets the hubs know what OS, browsers and browser versions are available on
Selenium What is the best “By” selector for Selenium, CSS or XPath? Short answer:CSS Why CSS:It is easier to learn/understandIt can do almost everything XPath canTypically faster than XPathIt’s used a lot on the development sideJQuery uses CSS extensivelyIt's used to style web pagesLong answer:It depends The right type of selector
