Hacktoberfest! – Celebrating Open Source Software
A quick introduction – Packages, Libraries, and Repos Before we begin, if you’re familiar with these terms, you can skip to the next section. As software developers, we often bring other …
Git Basics
The information for this blog post was taken from the content of a Git Basics training at EG’s 2020 QA Retreat. The purpose of this training was to provide a baseline for Automated Test …
Containerization Fundamentals
Imagine: You are joining a team developing an application as a [test automation engineer|business analyst|developer]. There is a Dev, Stage and Production environment for the application (and the …
Training and Professional Development: Caring for and Feeding our People
Over the last 20+ years, I have attended several training sessions and conferences. Some have been good, and some have been fairly poor. In conversations with a few other EG folks, we were trying to …
Simplify Selenium Selectors
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. – John Wooden Writing strong automated tests comes down to preparation. (I never thought I would be drawing connections between sports and automated …
Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 3
In our previous post, Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 2, we dug into the code. We demonstrated how everything is tied together. We outlined the BasePage, WebDriverResource, and …
Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 2
In our previous post, Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 1, we described how to manage Technical Debt and the importance of using a Page Model. We also gave an overview of the classes used in …
Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 1
In our introductory post, A Survey of the Automated Testing Landscape, we defined the problems we often find in automated testing. In this series, we will walk through an intelligent example of a …
A Survey of the Automated Testing Landscape
The tools available in test automation these days are pretty amazing. The options are getting a little overwhelming. You could choose to pay for an expensive product that would make a lot of decisions …
Android UI Testing with Espresso
Android UI testing is often overlooked, although most developers know it’s something that they should be doing. It’s like eating your vegetables – it’s not a pleasant experience for some, but it …
E-gAT: E-gineering Automated Test, part 3
Previously, on Avatar… In prior introductory posts (part 1, part 2), we covered why E-gAT is a toolkit and not a framework, dropped some philosophy around leveraging the power of an organization’s …
E-gAT: E-gineering Automated Test, part 2
Page Object Pattern: Smart, and… From our considerable experience in software, we’ve learned the great value of leveraging industry best practices and patterns – because the industry at large has even …
Introducing E-gAT: E-gineering Automated Test, part 1
Making the Most of Opportunities Early in 2015 we had some time available for a short internal project. One E-gineer had just rolled off an engagement where the client was building automated test …
JMeter JUG
I presented an introduction to JMeter at our local Java User’s Group here in Indianapolis, known as IndyJUG. For those who attended the meeting, I promised to make the presentation slides and …
AutoItX3 and QTP Part 2
First, let’s take a look at how I solved my problem of automating keystrokes from the number pad. This will be genericized so that you can run it inside QTP or even just save it in a .vbs file …
AutoItX3 and QTP Part 1
As usual, after I got into writing this, it got too long to be a single post. Part 1 covers the background for why I began to use AutoIt in QTP and how you can go about setting up a system to use it …