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All your automated tests should fail

A crucial little caveat to my statement that automated tests aren’t automated if they don’t run automatically: All your automated tests should fail. … at least once, anyway. In the thick of implementing a new feature and coding up a bunch of tests for it, it’s easy to forget to run each one to make sure they’re… Read more

Highlights from one day at Web Unleashed 2018

I pretended to be a Front-End Developer for the day on Monday and attended some sessions at FITC’s Web Unleashed conference. Here are some of the things I found interesting, paraphrasing my notes from each speaker’s talk. Responsive Design – Beyond Our Devices Ethan Marcotte talked about the shift from pages as the central element in… Read more

99 character talk: Unautomated automated tests

Some of the testers over at testersio.slack.com were lamenting that it was quiet online today, probably due to some kind of special event that the rest of us weren’t so lucky to join. Some joked that we should have our own online conference without them, and Daniel Shaw had the idea for “99 character talks”,… Read more

Dynamically create test cases with Robot Framework

In Robot Framework, there isn’t an obvious built-in way to create a list of tests to execute dynamically. I recently faced a case where I wanted to do this, and happily Bryan Oakley (blog, twitter, github) was able to help me through the problem. I’ve seen a few people with similar problems so thought it… Read more

The Phoenix Project & the value of anecdotes

I generally have a hard time reading non-fiction books. Though I always love learning, I rarely find them engaging enough that I look forward to continuing them the way I do with a novel. If the topic is related to work, I usually find myself wanting to take notes, but I usually only make time… Read more