Author: kristinjackvony

Imagine that you are working on a team that is creating a new feature that allows users to submit and watch videos. The application uses a third party- we’ll call it Encodurz- that encodes the videos that are uploaded to your application. You work hard to test the feature; making sure that the UI is […]

It’s a new year, and a new year means it’s time for new challenges! My challenge to you is: this year, learn- and I mean REALLY learn- a programming language. Don’t just learn “enough to be dangerous”, or enough to write test automation; really understand the components of the language and how to use them. […]

I’ve been reading and reviewing one quality-related book a month for all of 2020, and it’s been a lot of fun! It was a great way to motivate myself to read books on software testing. My final book review of the year is “Leading Quality”, by Ronald Cummings-John and Owais Peer. The authors started their […]

Last Feburary, I checked out Cypress for the first time, and I was astounded! I wrote a post about just how easy it was to get started running Cypress. Cypress is so easy to set up because it runs within your native browser (or headless), so you don’t need to bother with browser drivers as […]

Continuous Deployment (CD) is often seen as the “Holy Grail” of software development. A developer checks in code, and it is miraculously deployed and tested in the QA, Stage and Production environments, without needing any human intervention at all. This sounds great- and it is- but only if you are ready for it! Here are […]

Anyone who has ever done laundry has most likely faced the issue where they are folding their recently washed clothes and they discover that they are missing one sock. Sometimes the sock is missing because it never made it into the laundry basket. Sometimes the sock was left in the washing machine. There are even […]

“Clean Code”, by Robert C. Martin and guest contributors, is frequently mentioned as one of the top books that software developers should read. I had been wanting to read the book for years, but I knew that it would require a big time commitment. Since I had a goal of reading one tech book a […]

One of the difficulties of being a software tester is that when you’re doing your job really well, it’s unnoticeable! Unlike software developers, who are creating a product that will then be seen by management, software testers create tests that will help validate that the product is working correctly. When we do a great job, […]

It’s been my experience that working with Regex makes everyone’s head hurt. No one wants to have to look at ^(19|20)\d\d[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])$ and figure out what it means! But in spite of that, Regex is a very powerful tool, and it’s good to know how to use it, even if (like most people) you’re not an […]

The summer after I graduated from high school, I got a job at a discount department store. In my first week on the job, I was trained to use the layaway register. Then the employee who trained me left to work elsewhere. Consequently I was the only non-management employee who knew how to use the […]