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How to become a software tester

Software testing career is very peculiar - you can’t just go to university and graduate, as none of them offer this field of study. Maybe because of that I hear a lot of questions like: ‘how to become a software...

Arguing Micheal Bolton's 20 statements about testing

Michael Bolton, one of the most recognized testers worldwide (assuming we take into account the number of followers), has recently published 20 very interesting tweets on his account. This leads to a very interesting discussion, which I recommend reading too. Unfortunately,...

How to nail testing job interview

Dan Ashby has recently published a brilliant mind map which he uses for interviewing software testers. Unfortunately, his full talk requires quite an expensive subscription and I wasn’t able to watch it. This gave me however an idea to post...

Introducing FluentLenium 2 - Selenium waiting game

Introducing FluentLenium is so far my most popular technical post and I will continue the series today with a very important subject - test waiting. For those who don’t know - FluentLenium is an actively developed Selenium extension that simplifies...

Tester's toolbox - an alternative guide

When you type ‘test tools’ in Google you can see a lot of links to Selenium, cURL, Cucumber, or even Firefox. I agree they are useful, but we are testers, and we shouldn’t test tools, but real systems. Below I...