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Tips and tricks for efficient GUI automation
GUI automated tests are the most slow, unstable and harmful among all automated tests types. Thus they require more careful handling and more efforts to not to make them a pain in your … test automation
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Track: Thunderstorm
I don’t have any clue how I composed it so many years ago, but I still like it.
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BDD approach in test automation
From my point of view and my personal (and not only mine) experience in test automation area BDD is a very controversial approach. From one side according to many resources and examples it looks cool and promising, should solve some typical problems and make life better. From the other side by some magic reason personally me don’t have at least one real world example (even in my colleagues experience) where the approach reached this goal. It’s time to dive deeper to see why this happens…
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Tinkerbell map
Tinkerbell map is a discrete-time dynamical system. Unlike Hénon map the system is not so well presented and studied.
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Test framework for test automation
Recently my colleague sent me a link to a video about new test library by Nick Chapsas. Nick made brief showcase of the library (it looks good, but I’m not ready to say I was impressed), but more interesting for me was one of the comments below the video, which was saying:
“We need test frameworks not just unit test frameworks (we use them for more than just unit tests)”
And really what’s wrong with them?
Spoiler: nothing, but …
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GUI test automation approach
There are a lot of different tools and frameworks for GUI testing available to test automation community. It’s really great that one is able to choose the tool best suitable for specific needs from a big number of options. But most of them are low-level tools designed to be a “driver” to specific platform or GUI implementation. Test automation engineer is a human who wants to interact with GUI in the same way independently on specific GUI nature. The world of free tools lacks in comprehensive and unified high-level approach for GUI testing (everything is better in world of proprietary tools, but let’s focus on “free” world)
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Demoscenes
About 15 years ago when I studied at university we had course of lectures on Assembly language. One day I with a classmate were in process of preparation to seminar where we planned to demonstrate our work with some graphics visualizations programmed on Assembly. During the preparation we had been searching for some useful references for our work over the internet and found some really interesting area called Demoscenes which I personally consider as art in programming and visualization.
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Hénon map
Hénon map is a discrete-time dynamical system. It’s one of the well known examples of dynamical systems that exhibit chaotic behavior.
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Windows 10/11 (WSL) jekyll quick start
WSL makes Jekyll setup procedure more easy
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hello jekyll!
This is Jekyll post existing by default. Could be used as reference