Reflecting on what I learned about test automation, how much testing I did in May 2020 and my further plans. Testing Internship Update and Thoughts on My Progress April-May 2020 turned out to be quite different from previous months. Lockdowns, social distancing and other many things have became a new reality as we saw Covid-19 cases growing. Kids no longer attend schools, nobody knows, people around us loosing jobs, nobody
Reflecting on what I learned about test automation, how much testing I did in March 2020 and my further plans. Testing Internship Update and Thoughts on My Progress It’s been a while since I wrote my last blog post in January 2020. It’s been extremely difficult to find time for writing. I tried to spend as much time as possible practising Python and learning new TAU tools. I also must
GitHub repository: pdfhandy This is the first article where I finally got courage to share some code from my first Test Automation Project. I started to learn Python and Selenium in November 2019. Since then I managed to write a few test, but most importantly, think I’ve built some kind of foundation for scaling and improving my tests. Probably most satisfying was seeing a steady growth of short snippets which
Another short update on what I have been up to: end of December 2019 – mid January of 2020. Testing Internship Update and Thoughts on My Progress Well, I have mixed feelings on the progress of my internship. On the one hand, since the start in July 2019, I’ve been working consistently and genuinely tried to help make Aerofiler’s software product better. Every week, I dedicate one full day to
This post is mostly for me to process my thoughts and reflect on major milestones from 2019. My journey continues. A journey from no experience in testing and automation to first meaningful projects, achievements and, hopefully, first rewarding job in automation. Milestones in 2019 Let’s have a look at my key milestones in the past year found a mentor to help me learn testing and automation got ISTQB certification completed
Another short update on what I have been up to in the second half of October – mid November 2019. Testing Internship In the end of of October 2019 I had another zoom meeting with creators of the software product I have been testing as an intern for the previous 2 months. Guess what, it turned to a payed internship . It is not a full-time job, I know,
Another short update on what I have been up to in the second half of September – beginning of October 2019. Another Project Finished Today I had zoom meeting with creators of the software product I have been testing as a volunteer for the last 2 months. It was a great opportunity to learn and practice testing. Of course, there is always more work to do, but I decided
Another short update on what I have been up to in the first half – mid September 2019. Digital Accessibility Testing Meetup This time Sydney Testers teamed up with Sydney Web Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup. The most valuable part for me was to see lots of real examples of accessibility issues (thanks Gian Wild for great presentation). I also learned about WCAG 2 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
Here is short update on what have been up to in end of August – first half of September 2019. James Bach Meetup in Sydney This time Sydney Testers meetup brought James Bach, one of the authors of “Lessons Learned in Software Testing”, tester, consultant, coach, speaker , creator of “Rapid Software Testing” methodology. James talked about critical thinking in why it is so important for testers.
Goal Use Selenium IDE command-line Runner on MacOS. Instructions: link https://www.seleniumhq.org/selenium-ide/docs/en/introduction/command-line-runner/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W7z5AwbLko Problem Installing Chromedriver Error: npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! errno -13 npm ERR! syscall access npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules’ npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules’ npm ERR! stack: