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How to be a failure as a software tester

There are multiple sources for testers who strive to excellence, but the other perspective hasn’t been covered… yet. In my essay I’ll try to show you how to make terrible job which can label you, your work and even your...

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...