I’ve worked on a number of DevOps projects recently where I’ve had to assemble Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines to build, deploy, and test software. In my case, we’ve been using Chef to automatically deploy various components of a java-based web system using Jenkins. We have a lot of pipeline job chains created in Jenkins to […]
One of the new features of the 2013 Q4 Secure CI Release was the inclusion of a testing framework, optimized for web based browser testing. I’m continuing to make a few updates to the testing framework, but more than anything I’ve been discovering more and more uses for it. I’ve been working in the mobile […]
One of my all-time favorite sales books is entitled Hope Is Not a Strategy. It’s a book about how to properly manage sales teams and opportunities. But I often use this slogan when talking to senior executives about their unrealistic software project expectations. When teams push back on unrealistic project release schedules, story estimates, or […]
The concept of whole team quality is a good one. Everybody on a project should be responsible for quality. Unfortunately, there are often holes in our whole team quality approach. Here are a few I’ve seen: No definition of Done – It’s difficult to achieve quality if you don’t define what it means! So many […]
When talking about the activities critical to agile success, one often hears about daily huddles, continuous integration, and user acceptance testing, but I’ve found that the agile principle of Self-directed Teams is equally important. Teams should be allowed to estimate and assign their own work for a variety of reasons: 1) Estimates will be more […]
Introduction Last month wrapped up my Cucumber posts for a while. I’ve covered the full gamut of topics for Cucumber, and I don’t believe I have too many more nuggets of knowledge to offer without putting myself out of a job. While working with Cucumber over the past year I’ve done a lot of research. […]
The hunt for a tool to provide you some ability to scan and analyze mobile application code may not be as elusive as the Chupacabra any more. Kryptowire is a security testing tools designed specifically for testing Android and iOS native mobile applications. It provides a simple interface for analyzing source code developed locally […]
Introduction Part of optimizing your Scenarios within your Features is to ensure you have succinct, reusable test steps. This means making your test steps generic enough to encompass all inputs and variations, but also specific enough to only tie to the implementation you desire. A large part of being successful in this task is to […]
I’m often asked what makes mobile testing so different that testing anything else? The simple answer is your goal. When we test a web application, per say, the goal of our testing is to often ensure that the application fulfills the requirements as directed by the product owner, that it meets any standards set by […]
Introduction Before we dive into best practices and tricks in writing our glue code, we want to cover a few last tricks on keeping our Feature files clean. The first of which is how to utilize the Background feature to pull out common test steps. Background Often times when writing multiple scenarios within a singular […]
