Automation

By Yanique Dickson Trying to land a job in a slow market is rough. It’s even harder if your area of expertise isn’t the one most in-demand or if you’re hoping to transition into a new career. I know because I’ve been there. I’ve recently transitioned into a career in software testing from a chemical…

By Julia Pottinger   Test automation is generally introduced into a project to solve issues such as repetitive manual work, working with large data sets, or getting faster feedback in a CI/CD pipeline. With this buzz around test automation, you may be considering going forth and automating “all the things.” You may have selected the…

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This is the third tutorial in a 3 part series dedicated to demonstrating how to do Database Testing with Slacker. (You can watch tutorial 2 here) In this tutorial, we will: Examine our project structure Configure our server credentials Create data for the test in the form of CSV files and Write and execute our…

The Challenge DPD is the UK’s leading parcel delivery brand.  As a leading time-critical carrier, the company has a reputation for being one of the most innovative in the industry, leveraging technology and information systems to provide more efficient delivery services. With the creation of new APIs to support their infrastructure, there was a need…

BY GAVIN SAMUELS   I like to think of Cucumber as a philosophy, much like Agile or even the MVC design pattern. And just like Agile or MVC, you get the best out of Cucumber when you execute its related processes as they are applicable to your team, product & project. As a QA Automation Engineer, I’ve…

The Customer Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to kids across the U.S. and Canada. Donations stay local to fund critical treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment, and charitable care. Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5…

BY JAMEL REID   This is the second tutorial in a 3-part series dedicated to demonstrating how to use a tool called Slacker for database testing. In this video,  Jamel goes through the process of getting Ruby installed on Windows 10. This allows installing the Slacker gem to our environment which will then be used…

BY JAMEL REID   This is the first tutorial in a 3 part series dedicated to demonstrating how to use a tool called Slacker to unit test a SQL Server database instance. In this video, Jamel will be setting up a database with two tables and a stored procedure. He will then perform a manual…

By Khadijah Brown  The evolution of the software world is quickly rendering manual processes not only obsolete but particularly annoying for the few who have not yet figured out how to transition. Recently, a client reached out to my team, frustrated about the tedious task of having to manually track the performance of their custom…