Which problem do we want to solve? We will try to solve one of the worst practices used on tests at any level: fixed/hard-coded data. I want to avoid as much as possible any manual pre-action before I can run my tests and, because of that, I try to avoid Read more…
Introduction LambdaTest created their different Certifications delivering them at free cost! They have a detailed announcement on their blog. I took the Selenium 101 exam and I passed. I will share my thought with you. My thoughts First of all, I don’t believe that much about certifications that don’t have Read more…
I started a new initiative 100 days ago: post daily tips about Testing tools you can use with Java! I posted it on Twitter and LinkedIn.By the way, don’t hesitate to follow/add me! What are the tools? I have covered the following tools that can give you complete test coverage Read more…
Introduction Instead of using some approaches that can add an extra abstraction layer to deliver a pretty report, we can use one with less code showing similar results using Allure Reports. The report can show all the test information and metrics. Sometimes we would like to add extra/custom information to remember Read more…
This post belongs to the How to create Lean Test Automation Architecture for Web using Java series. If you didn’t see the previous posts, please check them out! Introduction A good practice when we are creating an automated test framework using Java is the creation of properties files to add any configuration Read more…
Introduction Imagine you dealing with your functional/e2e tests where you want to clean the input fields. You will, probably, use your web test automation framework to do it, right? It seems a good and easy approach, but is it fast? In this post, I will show you basic comparisons based Read more…
What is a retry strategy? Retry strategy is an approach you can implement into your test to run it again when it fails by any condition: assertion error or exception. If a test fails the retry strategy will execute it again N times leading to the successful execution when one Read more…
Introduction In my career, I always believed that we (technical roles working in a software development project) are software engineers with more focus and experience in one area (backend, frontend, quality engineering, devops). These 3 books can be read by any software engineer that want’s to learn more about the Read more…
Introduction It is common, especially in functional tests on any front-end (web, mobile), to include text validation in our tests to verify that the returned value is the expected one. These validations are user failures or even information about a successfully executed command. However, it is common to see many Read more…