Adventures in Automation

Butch Mayhew, Playwright Ambassador and author of the LinkedIn Learning course, Learning Playwright , has just released a companion course...

Back job searching again? Time to learn a new automation toolset! Thank you, Butch Mayhew for your course, Learning Playwright on LinkedIn...

I absolutely loved this week's episode of Joe Colantonio's Test Guild, Building a Career in QA with Judy Mosley .   This week, Joe i...

When building out an automation framework, I always try to keep the wants and needs of the stakeholders in mind. Business analysts want to k...

There is something magical that first time a software tester explores a web application. A head full of questions, they fire up their favori...

My development team and I at MassMutual were all just given notice that our last day would be July 11, 2025. Anybody looking for a Software ...

Today is a hard day. I just stepped down from being a Meetup Organizer of the Ministry of Testing - Boston. Life has been so busy the past y...

This is fourth in a series of blog posts.  Care to go back to the beginning ? Following along with Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan's eBoo...

This is third in a series of blog posts.  Care to go back to the beginning ? Last blog entry, based on Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan's ...

This is second in a series of blog posts. Care to go back to the beginning ? For this exercise, we will be setting up a Windows 10 box for u...

Greenfield projects have been rare in my automation development career. The programming language, the toolsets that help craft the automatio...

This morning, I just purchased Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan's LeanPub book, " Cucumbers and Cheese: A Tester's Workshop ...

Hey there! It's been a while. How have you been?  It's been a rough year, hasn't it?  Since we last talked, a global pandemic st...

Over the past five years, I've constructed many automation test frameworks, both tinkering here at home and creating ones on-the-job.  F...

Although I received my offer letter back on June 3rd, for a Software Test Engineer position at Verily (formerly Google Life Science) it wa...

Starting June 15th, I will be a Software Test Engineer for Verily Life Sciences! Verily.com "Verily's mission is to make the ...

As you may have seen in my last post , the workplace I have loved had a reduction in force. I made a lot of friends at Threat Stack , people...

Anyone know of any SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) positions in Downtown Boston? I am now looking for new employment. I now h...

A new article of mine was just published on the Threat Stack blog, dealing with all the research, requirements gathering, and analysis I pe...

Miss the Lightning Talks on Wednesday for the Ministry of Testing - Boston ?  Have no fear! They were recorded and are now on YouTube: ht...

Come visit Mabl's new office tomorrow for an evening of ten-minute lightning talks! Come mingle starting at 6:00 pm, and help yourself ...

Previously Published August 27, 2019 on the Threat Stack blog , based on the TestingGuild.com talk I gave back in June 2018, How to Work Wit...

Previously published on the  Threat Stack Blog , September 19, 2019, co-author Laura Haiduck.  All software development projects, whether...

This is Part 2 of 2 of a blog series. Care to go back to the beginning ?  There are many different Ruby libraries that allow you to intera...

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority ( MBTA ) operates a series of bus lines, whose information is accessible through their API, https://...

Angie Jones, International Keynote Speaker, blogger at angiejones.tech , Director of TestAutomationU.com is on a world tour for her latest ...

I remember being so impressed when I first heard about Test Automation University , the latest project by Angie Jones . A free online univer...

Are you a software tester who is new to coding? Don't know where to start? Angie Jones has released a new Java Programming course on ...

Whenever I join a new team, my first task is fostering and nurturing a good working relationship with the developers. Why? If there is good ...

Simon Stewart, the Selenium product lead, the creator of WebDriver gave a brief preview on what is coming up with Selenium 4. Selenium, Si...

Even though I have been a software tester for the past twenty years, I still like taking introductory courses where I can practice going bac...

Want to learn about testing REST APIs? Make sure to check out Amber Race's Exploring Service APIs Through Test Automation , part of Angi...

Threat Stack , where I work, has started a campaign to showcase on its company blog not just its developers and security analysts, but also ...

New to Automated testing? Need to figure out what tests to automate? Who should do the automation work? How to get buy-in from the developme...

Long time no see! How have you been? I've been good. My nine-month old son is utterly adorable. My wife and I just love getting on the...

There is so much going on in the software testing community with the Ministry of Testing, Applitools' Test Automation University, and Ma...

When I started this blog, it was before I ever found my first automation development position. This blog was a way for me to keep up the goo...

This is the seventh part of a series of blog posts. Care to go back to the beginning ?  Tinkering with Ruby only for the past year, Ruboco...

This is the sixth part of a series of blog posts. Care to go back to the beginning ?  Want to view JavaScript errors in Chrome? Or see if ...

This is the fifth part of a series of blog posts. Care to go back to the beginning ?  So far, we have written test specifications to test...