I gave my first talk, ever, outside of the local software testing Meetup group I run, back in January 2018, as part of the Automation Guild, basing it on a TechBeacon article I wrote when I was looking for new positions in Boston in the Summer of 2016.
Enjoy!
How to Pass a Coding Interview as an Automation Developer
https://youtu.be/fgT3Q9vJ74s
Happy Testing!
-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston
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September 26, 2018
September 22, 2018
Excerpt: How to Gauge What Your Tests Are Doing
Excerpted from Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals (2018), featuring stories from over twenty software testers. Order your copy now!
With BDD, the entire team as a whole can brainstorm together on how the product should (and should not) work. By breaking down behaviors into small, simple, and understandable sentences, the documentation being created can be used as a product specification, as a blueprint developers and testers can use and as acceptance criteria the business analysts can evaluate.
How to Gauge What Your Tests Are Doing
Introduction
Every software development team struggles with answering two questions:- How can the entire team, from business analysts to developers to testers, determine how your product should behave?
- How can you gauge how your software product is truly behaving?
With BDD, the entire team as a whole can brainstorm together on how the product should (and should not) work. By breaking down behaviors into small, simple, and understandable sentences, the documentation being created can be used as a product specification, as a blueprint developers and testers can use and as acceptance criteria the business analysts can evaluate.
September 10, 2018
Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals - Launch date September 12!
September 12th, Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals, the first book I have ever contributed to, will be launching!
"The Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals book, is a definitive guide for DevOps teams covering practices required to excel in implementing and sustaining continuous testing (CT) in each step of the DevOps pipeline. The book was developed in collaboration with industry experts from the DevOps domain, that includes CloudBees, Tricentis, Testim.IO, Test.AI, Perfecto, and many more.
"The book addresses all the DevOps practitioners including software developers, testers, operation managers, and IT/Business executives.
"[...] All profits from this book will be donated to code.org to support kids that wish to learn programming".
Find more information here!
What a fun project! I am thrilled to have been asked to contribute.
Happy Testing!
-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston
Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn | Articles
"The Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals book, is a definitive guide for DevOps teams covering practices required to excel in implementing and sustaining continuous testing (CT) in each step of the DevOps pipeline. The book was developed in collaboration with industry experts from the DevOps domain, that includes CloudBees, Tricentis, Testim.IO, Test.AI, Perfecto, and many more.
"The book addresses all the DevOps practitioners including software developers, testers, operation managers, and IT/Business executives.
"[...] All profits from this book will be donated to code.org to support kids that wish to learn programming".
Find more information here!
What a fun project! I am thrilled to have been asked to contribute.
Happy Testing!
-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston
Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn | Articles
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