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Advises those seeking a first software testing job to broaden their search to other IT roles and emphasizes learning programming as the key skill to increase hiring chances across the industry, explaining why junior roles are challenging to fill and linking programming skills to antifragility.
Read more: How to get a first job as a software tester?Compares Selenium WebDriver with the FluentLenium extension by implementing the same test scenario, demonstrating how FluentLenium simplifies setup, interactions, assertions, and waiting, leading to more concise code.
Read more: Selenium vs FluentLeniumReflects on the author's journey to public speaking, highlighting the roles of blogging, community involvement (KraQA), and teaching experience in overcoming fear, concluding with feedback and slides from an Engineering Productivity talk.
Read more: My road to public speaking + slides from Engineering Productivity talkA satirical guide offering tongue-in-cheek advice on how to fail as a software tester, covering neglecting personal development, abusing the 'quality guardian' role, avoiding technology, shirking environment responsibility, disrupting team flow, and ignoring the community.
Read more: How to be a failure as a software testerIntroduces Google Lighthouse as a quick and easy tool for performance analysis, showing how to install it via npm and generate desktop/mobile reports from the command line with options for throttling and headers, also mentioning CI integration.
Read more: Five minutes performance report with Google Lighthouse