... This summer, I was quite busy! I've been doing one programming side-project a month from February to May 2017, publishing two articles in TechBeacon.com and running the Ministry of Testing - Boston at the same time...
Tinkering with Twitter
October 2017
- Part One: Twitter and the Twitter Search API
- Part Two: Getting the Twitter credentials: Consumer Keys and Access Tokens
- Part Three: Setting up an API Testing Environment with Twitter4J
- Part Four: Post a Tweet Using Twitter4J To Interact With the Twitter API
- GitHub: Review the source code for the project.
Build a Basic Appium Framework
May 2017 - June 2017
- Part One: Review How to Inspect Mobile Apps with Appium Desktop
- Part Two: Design a Basic Test, Examining Mobile Elements with Appium Desktop
- Part Three: Install and Launch an App Using Desired Capabilities
- Part Four: Set up the Page Objects, Page Factories and Tests
- Part Five: Download the tests and run them on your own MacBook!
- Part Six: How to create and launch an Android emulator from Android Studio
- Part Seven: What happens behind the scenes as Appium installs and launches an Android app? Examining and footnoting a log file.
- GitHub: Review the source code for the project.
Learning Appium Desktop
April 2017
- Part One: What is Appium Server and How Do You Start It With Appium Desktop
- Part Two: How to Connect To Your Android Device Using the Android SDK, the Android Command Line Tools, and the Android Debug Bridge
- Part Three: Setting up remote devices through WiFi
- Part Four: Setting up Android Emulators with Android Virtual Device Manager (avd), choosing the Android operating system version
- Part Five: Find the Desired Capabilities: appPackage and appActivity. Bug in AAPT if giving just appName
- Part Six: Inspecting an Android app using Appium Desktop
Learning Serenity BDD
March 2017
- Serenity BDD: An Automation Framework That Uses Specification by Example (SBE)
- What is the Difference Between TDD and BDD?
- Studying BDD using The Cucumber Book and BDD in Action
- Scaffolding a new project using Maven Archetypes
- Reviewing The Serenity Screenplay Tutorial
Are You Sure the Bus Line is Listed? Gathering data using REST APIs and REST Assured:
February 2017
- Don't Gather Data from the MBTA's website. Use a RESTful Endpoint Instead!
- Interacting with MBTA's API using REST Assured
Building a Geb + Groovy + Spock project with Yeoman:
November 2016
- About Yeoman, scaffolding, and other tooling applications
- A Step-by-Step Process: Installing and Configuring Yeoman using Chris Hluchan's Geb Generator
- Running the Built-In Tests From the Command Line, and Examining How They Are Set Up
- Initial Source Code Generated by the Geb Generator
SDET Prepwork:
I have shifted from being an automation engineer to being a Software Developer in Test. In order to keep up, I have written a few blogs entries about what I need to learn:
Playing with Protractor:
September 2016
- Testing an AngularJS application with Protractor, Jasmine, and JavaScript
- Walkthrough of installing PhoneCat Tutorial App: How to learn AngularJS
- The complexities of testing JavaScript frameworks, according to Vojtěch Jína, creator of the Karma Test Runner
RESTful API Testing with Postman and Newman:
July 2016
Article covers "What is an API?" and gives sample APIs on the web. Also shows
- Walkthrough Setting up a Postman Test
- How to download and configure Newman, how Postman runs tests from the command line
Configuring Build.Gradle Environments:
June 2016
- IntelliJ: Setting up WebDriver framework in Gradle
- Eclipse: Setting up WebDriver framework in Gradle
- A Bit About Groovy
The Builder Pattern:
April 2016 - May 2016
RESTful Testing with Stripe and Apache HttpComponents:
Feb 2016 - March 2016
- Introduction
- Part One: Intro to REST APIs
- Part Two: Interacting with Stripe using http and cURL
- Part Three: API Keys, Property files, and Initial Setup
- Part Four: UriBuilder, HttpGet and other Apache HttpComponents
- Part Five: From JSON to Object: HttpEntity and GSON
- Source Code: GitHub, T.J. Maher
Automate Amazon
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
How to develop a rudimentary framework to create automated tests for Amazon.
- Introduction
- Setup a Development Environment
- Sketch Out a Use Case
- Common Utility Methods
- Writing a Sign In Test
- Product Enums, Product Objects, and Pojos
- Initialize Cart and Login
- Writing the Shopping Cart Test
Testing The-Internet
June - July 2015
Writing automated tests versus Dave Haeffner's Login page on his test site, The-Internet.
- Step One: Sketch out the simple manipulation of a Login page
- Step Two: Draft Common Utilities
- Step Three: Storing Constants: static finals vs enums
- Step Four: Storing Locators for Web Elements
- Step Five: The Page Object Model
- Step Six: Writing the Automated Test
