When you should restart any server instance?
image credit: findicons.com TLDR In order to know when you should restart your server process (web server, database server, or any other type of server), you need to understand how…
Metric for BPEL developer productivity
Image credit: thinktheology.org TLDR I have got very interesting task. My friend asked me to help him to determine metric that will be used to measure developers productivity in his…
Suppress phantomjs console log in watir webdriver
image credit: phantomjs.org TLDR In this short post I will describe how different environment could produce different result for the same tool. Phantomjs is full web stack that enables tester…
Validation of record uniqueness in Ruby on Rails application
credit: http://mahoot.com/ TLDR In one of my previous posts, I wrote about important software design antipattern. In this post I will explain how to avoid it in Ruby on Rails application….
Wrong design issue
credit: http://blog.nemetschek-scia.com/ TLDR In this post I am talking about important tester activity. That activity can be done where there is no single line of code, by just giving critical opinion…
Where to put rspec expectation in Cucumber project?
credit: cukes.info TLDR In this post I will explain how to use rspec expectations in cucumber project that uses page object gem. In order to be able to use rspec…
Zagreb STC #19 report, the power of meetup.com
Core moto of MaMa: free software Yesterday we gathered for our regular Zagreb STC meetup, #19 at MaMa. This time we discovered the power of meetup platform. Apparently, meetup.com is…
http_proxy environment variable override in selenium webdriver
credit: exceptionz.wordpress.com TLDR Context is the king! In this post I will explain how operating system environment variables can change the behavior of your selenium-webdriver test scripts. If you are in…
How to embed screenshot in Cucumber report across various environments
credit: simpleicon.com In my current project I have to automate browser UI actions as part of regression test suite that is run using Jenkins. Watir-webdriver has a nice feature of…
Fallacy:: Speed up software delivery using software testing
Credit: hudsonwriting11.wordpress.com Sometimes I stumble upon on the Internet on following pitch line created by XY software testing services company:“If you hire us, we will help you to push your product…
