Testing – WQ

Category: Testing

Automated Testing API’s

forceedge01 - March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

Behat is a great testing tool. Its capabilities are expanding daily due to its extensible extensions platform. I’ve been automating testing for a while now which includes API’s as well. [ … ]

Test framework characteristics

forceedge01 - November 6, 2018September 25, 2019

Some of the elements of a test framework we should not compromise on such as: Speed When I started off, I got the argument of – if we can run [ … ]

Behat and Databases

forceedge01 - September 21, 2018December 19, 2018

How about database driven tests? The traditional way to do this is to setup fixture data once and then test against it. But as time goes by, fixture data gets [ … ]

Guidelines on automated testing

forceedge01 - May 29, 2018September 25, 2019

Have you experienced too much automation effort and not much output? Breaking tests here and there despite you’re undying efforts? Test automation is fantastic, it can save everyone a lot [ … ]

Behat: Screenshot on failure and more!

forceedge01 - May 29, 2018December 2, 2018

We test so we can have increased confidence in our product that we are about to ship. We have to have it all green and passing. But sometimes when we’re [ … ]

Running automated tests on chrome headless, CentOS!

forceedge01 - May 28, 2018September 20, 2018

Hey guys, recently I had the challenge of running our automation pack on centOS, thought i’d share the learnings here. There is really no difference in running them. The tough [ … ]

Behat with JavaScript!

forceedge01 - May 28, 2018September 20, 2018

So we’ve covered testing without any JavaScript support in this post. While I do not recommend testing heavily with JavaScript for a few different reasons (we’ll cover them later), it [ … ]

The automated testing paradigm

forceedge01 - May 22, 2018December 19, 2018

Hello! As coders we have to test our product before we ship it. Some of us choose to automate some don’t. For those who automate, it is important to understand [ … ]

Dealing with Legacy Code! Behat on…

forceedge01 - May 21, 2018September 20, 2018

So testing is important these days. In fact I wouldn’t be able to release any code that isn’t backed by automated tests. But as a contractor I often land in [ … ]

Installing Behat from scratch!

forceedge01 - May 21, 2018September 20, 2018

Hey guys, I’ve been coaching Behat and relevant tech’s for some time now. Think it be good to share the information out to you start to finish. I love Behat [ … ]