September 12, 2017

First Behat Extension

Behat Extensions CSV Formatter - Our first attempt at Selenium/Behat tests was the write simple smoke tests to validate that after an upgrade our Student Information System (SIS) still worked correctly. We have some other tests that the offices will manually do to validate the upgrades of the software worked correctly, but these test were needed to validate that the basic functionality was still there and forms would open. This extension was created to generate a csv file output containing all the runs and if the smoke test passed or failed.

August 1, 2017

Building an infrastructure

Starting Small but remember it will go bigger I’m just starting to learn how to write and run some tests so lets just run them on my computer. I don’t need a big hub and several nodes to run hundreds of tests at a time lets just begin running one test at a time. So I want to start my automated testing adventure by verifying that a form launches correctly.

July 15, 2017

How can I help Miami?

Since there is just one of you, you should just automate everything A few days after I started this position last year, this was something that I heard regularly from my upper-management. You should start testing “X” we get lots of updates for that so you should automate the tests for that. This is coming from people who have never tested anything, and definately have no clue what it means to create automated tests.

April 10, 2017

Selenium Conference 2017 -Austin

Continuing into the World of learning new things Back in my developer days I checked out Selenium, but from what I learned at the conference, that was back in their infant days. From what I saw at the conference Selenium has come a long way and it has only just begun. Pre-Conference Workshop I was lucky enough to be able to attend a pre-conference workshop on getting started with Selenium. Some basic stuff was covered but it was a real good overview and very helpful on getting started with Selenium.

March 1, 2017

QA or the Highway - 2017

Location, Location, Location For those of you who don’t know Miami University is about 1 hour north of Cincinnati, OH - not in Florida like some may think. So now that we have established where Miami is and where I work for that matter, when I tell you that the QA or The Highway Conference is located in Columbus, OH, which according to Distance Between Cities its only 118 miles by car, which is like a nice day trip.

May 1, 2016

Orlando, here I come

Training Time So here I am, Orlando, FL. The Sunshine state, and I get to spend my whole time here training rooms. I arrived in Orlando, last night to spend the next 6 days learning about testing and what my job means. I get to learn from others, see what they are doing and just get a better overall understanding of how to bring a department of developers up to the place where they can test.