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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...

Mapping lean principles to testing

Do’s and don’ts for testers is my most viewed post so far. Because of that (and because it’s always better to leave various doors open) I wouldn’t focus on technical posts only. Time for something my colleague accurately calls computer...

Learning pathways for testers

Usually, when I look online for learning resources I find a lot of rankings like: Top 10 blogs every tester should follow Top 5 sites every tester should know Top 20 Twitter account for every professional tester Almost always those...

Selenium - Browser Capabilities explained 1

In my first post about Selenium (FluentLenium series will focus on extension features only), I decided to tackle Chrome & Firefox capabilities which allow us to preconfigure browser settings before tests. This seemed quite easy at the beginning, but I...

Do's and don'ts for testers - 2016 edition

Time is flying pretty fast. Christmas has just finished and we have February already. Probably everyone who wanted to post 2016 testing predictions has already done it. Hopefully, I’m the last one (lots of scientists say it’s the best possible...