Time for a new automation project

For the past two years I have been the dedicated QA engineer for a single customer, watching their site grow from a small dashboard to an inventory management system. During that time, Katalon was introduced and I focused on building dozens of test cases to test major portions of functionality. I learned a huge amount and my automation project went through 5 major rewrites. With that project being feature complete, I am turning over the reins to work on a new project. I have the opportunity to write all new automation code, from the ground up, taking into account everything I learned, especially from the mistakes I made. This week I have completed my first pass. Like working in Photoshop, or writing a first draft, I put my code together in layers or phases. I prefer to start with a series of small tests that touch multiple parts of a site, rather than create one large, deeply dynamic test. My […]

Chin up! It could always be worse

Even with the doom and gloom, you need to look on the bright side, things could always be worse. Not only could you work for a POS company like Wells Fargo, it could actually be the year 2000, which is the technology they seem to be using. If this were 20 years, or even 10 years ago, things would truly be in upheaval. We have tools like Slack, Zoom, and others so we can hold conferences with dozens of people not only in different parts of the city, but different parts of the country. The technology to host that was abysmal 10 years ago. We have an Internet backbone that can actually support this traffic. We previously had DSL, which was great at the time, and fast compared to dial-up, but egad, there is no way you could conduct business over that connection. Sure, it can be a little saturated at peak times, but it's working 95% of time, so […]