Author: kristinjackvony

If you are working for a company that makes software for end users, you have probably heard of user personas.  A user persona is a representation of one segment of your application’s end users.  For example, if you worked for a company that made a website for home improvement supplies, one of your user personas […]

For this month’s book review, I read Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals: A Practical Guide from Industry Experts, by various authors and edited by Eran Kinsbruner.  The book is divided into four sections: Fundamentals of Continuous Testing, Continuous Testing for Web Apps, Continuous Testing for Mobile Apps, and The Future of Continuous Testing. The Fundamentals […]

Wikipedia defines debugging as “the process of finding and resolving defects or problems within a computer program that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system”.  Often we think of debugging as something that only developers need to do, but this isn’t the case.  Here are two reasons why:  first, investigating the cause of a bug when we find […]

Have you ever used a JWT before?  If you have tested anything with authentication or authorization, chances are that you have!  The term JWT is pronounced “jot” and it stands for JSON Web Token.  JWTs are created by a company called Auth0, and their purpose is to provide a method for an application to determine […]

BIG NEWS!  My LinkedIn Learning course on Postman is now live!  This course is an introduction to creating API requests and assertions with Postman.  You’ll learn how to create a test collection, run it from the command line, and set it to run as an automated job in Jenkins.  You can access the course here:  https://www.linkedin.com/learning/postman-essential-training

We’ve all encountered mysterious hashed passwords and encrypted texts.  We’ve heard mysterious terms like “salted” and “SHA256” and wondered what they meant.  This week I decided it was finally time for me to learn about encryption! The first distinction we need to learn is the difference between encryption and encoding.  Encoding simply means transforming data […]

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this year I’m reading one testing-related book a month and reviewing it in my blog.  This month I read Enterprise Continuous Testing, by Wolfgang Platz with Cynthia Dunlop. This book aims to answer solve the problems often found in continuous testing.  Software continuous testing is defined by the author […]

This year I’ve been feeling an urge to really learn a programming language.  There are lots of languages I know well enough to write automation code in- C#, Java, Javascript, and so on- but I decided I wanted to really dive into one language and learn to really understand it. I decided to go deep […]

About six weeks ago, the Iowa Democratic Party held its caucus.  For those who don’t live in the United States, this event is one of the first steps in the presidential primaries, which determine who will be running for president in the next presidential election.  In 2016, the Iowa Caucus used a mobile app created […]

As software becomes increasingly complex, more and more companies are turning to APIs as a way to organize and manage their application’s functionality.  Instead of being one monolithic application where all changes are released at once, now software can be made up of multiple APIs that are dependent upon each other, but which can be […]