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Five minutes performance report with Google Lighthouse

With little disappointment I realised today that I haven’t done a single post about performance testing (in almost 3 years of blogging!). Today I’d like to change that by introducing you with simple, yet powerful, performance tool called Lighthouse. According...

TestOps - the most antifragile testing role

I have read many fascinating books in 2017 which influenced me a lot. Among the very best are Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan and Antifragile which is perhaps the most important, although which can’t be fully...

Get rid of your external dependencies with WireMock

So far in my posts focusing on API testing I was using external services only. This isn’t particularly bad for higher level tests, but sometimes we would like to work on our localhosts only. This eliminates potential flakiness related to...

What CIA teaches us about productivity

I’ve done lots of code-rich posts this year which may leave some of my readers disappointed. Today there would be no code and the topic would be much broader - productivity. Christmas time favors off-topic so this post (and next...