Most software testers, when asked why they enjoy testing, will say things like: I like to think about all the ways I can test new features It’s fun to come up with ways to break the software I like the challenge of learning how the different parts of an application work I certainly agree with […]
Author: kristinjackvony
Adventures in Node: Promises
Have you ever written an automated UI test that uses Javascript, and when you went to assert on a response, you got Promise {pending} instead of what you were expecting? This really frustrated me when I first encountered it! A developer I was working with explained that this is because Javascript processes commands asynchronously through the […]
Book Review: Perfect Software and Other Illusions About Testing
“Perfect Software and Other Illusions About Testing”, by Gerald Weinberg, is the best book on testing I have ever read. It is a must-read for anyone who works with software: CEOs, CTOs, scrum masters, team leads, developers, product owners, business analysts, and software testers. Before I get into why this book is so great, I’ll […]
Rarely Used HTTP Methods
A couple of months ago, one of the developers I work with asked me to test a bug fix he’d done. In order to test it, I’d need to make an HTTP request with the OPTIONS method. I’d never heard of the OPTIONS method, and it got me thinking: what other HTTP methods did I […]
Seven Steps to Solve Any Coding Problem
I am not the world’s greatest coder, although I am getting better every year. One thing that I’m really improving on is my ability to solve coding problems. I’m not talking about those coding challenges that you can get online or in a job interview; I’m talking about those real-world problems, like “How are we […]
Testing Email Without Tears
Several years ago, when I was first learning test automation, I needed to create a test for my company’s email service. I had configured the service to deliver an email every day, and I wanted an automated test that would check my test Gmail account and determine if the email had been delivered. At the […]
Six Testing Personas to Avoid
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 […]
Book Review: Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals
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 […]
Debugging for Testers
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 […]
The Joy of JWTs
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 […]