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Romanian Testing Conference 2017 was a blast!

Last week I had the pleasure of taking part in the 2017 edition of the Romanian Testing Conference. I was contacted by Andrei from the organizing committee in August of last year, initially to host a workshop at what would...

Remember what your tests are trying to verify

Lately, I’ve been working a lot on Selenium-based test automation solutions. And even though I’m still not overly enthusiastic about creating lots of user interface-driven automated tests, now that I’m getting more skilled at creating robust and stable Selenium tests,...

Let your test automation talk to you

Most of my current projects involve me paving the automation way by discussing requirements and needs with stakeholders, deciding on an approach and the tools used, setting up a solution and some initial tests and then instructing others and handing...

Using JsonPath and XmlPath in REST Assured

While preparing my REST Assured workshop for the Romanian Testing Conference next month, I ran into a subject I feel I didn’t cover enough in the previous times I hosted the workshop: how to effectively use JsonPath and XmlPath to...

Stop sweeping your failing tests under the RUG

Hello and welcome to this week’s rant on bad practices in test automation! Today’s serving of automation bitterness is inspired by a question I saw (and could not NOT reply to) on LinkedIn. It went something like this: My tests...