Notes from Zero to Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Pipeline and Blue Ocean

On-Demand Webinar: Zero to Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Pipeline and Blue Ocean
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"Jenkins has long been the hub of continuous delivery. Jenkins Pipeline, however, now brings a whole new world of possibilities. This video shows get started with Jenkins Pipeline and implement a complete, practical continuous delivery process from start to finish.

"This webinar shows you how to:

• "Create a Declarative Pipeline for a Java and Node.js Project with the Blue Ocean Editor
• "Safely iterate on a Jenkins Pipeline to add Build, Test, Analyze, and Deploy stages
• "Launch different Docker agents for each stage
• "Run stages in Parallel to improve Pipeline throughput
• "Manually control promotion using the "input" step

Are you a software tester? Take the State of Testing Survey 2017, by SmartBear!

Tonight was wonderful! The Ministry of Testing - Boston gathered together in Assembly Square, Somerville, MA at the headquarters of SmartBear, maker of automated testing toolsets such as  SoapUI, SwaggerHub, and TestComplete.

SmartBear walked us through their entire testing process... They gave us so much information, it was difficult to take notes!

You can watch the program yourself at https://www.facebook.com/smartbear/videos/1943658005659610/

In the meantime, drop what you are doing and fill out their survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/smartbear-state-of-testing-survey-social

Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
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// Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Software Tester since 1996.
// Contributing Writer for TechBeacon.
// "Looking to move away from manual QA? Follow Adventures in Automation on Facebook!"

My fifth article was published on TechBeacon! "How QA can build quality into your software pipeline"

I forgot to mention... Back on May 30th, my fifth article from TechBeacon was published: "How QA can build quality into the software pipeline"!

TechBeacon always finds the cutest opening graphics for my articles!

... I do prefer my original title, which referred to the changing definition of quality as you moved from being a manual tester to an automation developer.

I can't believe it was a year ago that Rob Mitchell, Managing Editor of TechBeacon gave me a call February of 2016 after I inquired about writing for HPE's online magazine... but I had never written professionally before. What the heck do I write about?

Notes from Eran Kinsbruner talk, The Digital Quality Handbook: Guidefor Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality (June 13, 2017)

When the Ministry of Testing - Boston met up on Tuesday, June 13th, 2017, that evening's guest was Eran Kinsbruner, Mobile Technical Evangelist at Perfecto Mobile, talk about his book, The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality, just released on April 28, 2017!

Perfecto sponsored the Ministry of Testing - Boston event. Thank you so much for setting up the event, along with the the refreshments, Lindsay!

About the The Digital Quality Handbook:

According to Amazon:
"As mobile and web technologies continue to expand and basically drives large organizational business in virtually every vertical or industry, it is critical to understand how to take existing release practices for mobile and web apps to the next level, including software development life cycle (SDLC), tools, quality, etc. Organizations which are already enjoying the power of digital are still struggling with various challenges that can be related to many factors, such as:

What happens behind the scenes as Appium installs and launches an Android app? Examining and footnoting a log file.

This is part seven of of a seven-part blog series. Care to go back to the beginning?

Have you ever wondered what is happening behind-the-scenes as Appium launches an app? Well, there is one way to find out...

Today, we will be taking a look at the log files captured in the Appium console, generated after I launch the APIDemos-debug.apk Android app, with the help of Appium, onto an Android emulator.

... Actually, this blog article wasn't written in a day. It took more than a few weekends to thoroughly research everything... and I do mean everything!

There are possible errors or questions on the inner workings on Appium, with insightful statements such as ... "Huh? What's this?" ... They are highlighted in red.

Is there anything I am wrong about? Please let me know! I am a complete novice when it comes to Appium (although, I have been hideously busy).  I only started learning it in March of 2017. The reason I am blogging about this is because I actually want you to comment if I am completely off-base, or if I am error about the inner workings of Appium or the world of Android development.

Notes: Automation, Selenium WebDriver, and PageObjects with AndrewBoyer (5/31/2017)

Have you ever wanted to learn about Automated Testing but wasn't sure where to start?

Members of the Ministry of Testing - Boston met last week to listen and bring questions to Andrew Boyer, a Software Developer in Test who has worked at both Google and Amazon. Andrew talked with us Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 about Functional Web Automation using Selenium WebDriver. 

Andrew Boyer, SDET

About the Speaker:

Andrew Boyer has worked in the software industry for more than twenty years, for companies as small as ten people, and as large as Google and Amazon. Working at times as a developer, tester, or even a sales engineer, he focuses now on process improvements and creating automation frameworks. He believes good automation is accessible to all job roles, and improves not just the quality of the shipping product, but also the velocity of the engineering organization.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-boyer-4a00685/

Moshe Milman, COO of Applitools, speaks to the Ministry of Testing - Boston (5/23/2017)

We had a special guest on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 coming to speak to the Ministry of Testing - Boston!

Moshe Milman, COO and co-creator of Applitools gave a talk to the Ministry of Testing - Boston called "Advanced Test Automation Techniques For Responsive Apps And Sites". The event was sponsored by Cengage Learning, a twelve minute walk from South Station in Boston, MA, at 20 Channel Center Street, Boston, MA.