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Last week, I completed creating a showcase for testing an Amazon product page using Selenium and the Snapshot library. Next, I’ll be producing demo videos for testing REST APIs using the Snapshot library and IntelliJ. It’s truly remarkable how straightforward API testing can be without relying on any other tools besides Java and IntelliJ. I … Read more
Today is Easter, the most important holiday for all Christians. Usually on this day, we talk about the essence of Christianity, about how Jesus was crucified and why He allowed Himself to be crucified. Also remembered is the story that happened many centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ, when the Jews in the time … Read more
I played with my little daughter memory game. She started winning all the time and was very happy, making jokes about her father. I decided to invent a tool to help me compete with her. The main idea was to memorize only five cards at the border and repeat them in words inside my brain … Read more
Today, while taking my son to school, I had a serious expression on my face. The day before, I had added a new feature for checking dynamic values in snapshots (JSON, CSV) during API testing. Despite my serious demeanor, the school director greeted me kindly as we reached the gate. However, thinking I looked worried, … Read more
Today, I see more and more ads promising to generate tests automatically. I don’t believe in all these promises because: Earlier, we referred to automated test generation as a model-based approach. We had a formal model and then a generator that produced the required tests. Now, ads claim that these tests can be automatically generated … Read more
If your tests fail randomly, don’t just keep rerunning them until they pass, as it might mask issues like race conditions or deadlocks. Instead, concentrate on retrying only the unstable parts of your test that aren’t directly related to its main goal. For instance, if there’s a failure in connecting to an external webservice during … Read more
In automated testing, where the integrity of individual tests is paramount, many developers mistakenly believe that test isolation should occur after the test has been executed, leading them to implement cleanup instructions in the @After method. This approach is flawed because, in the event of a test failure, the @After method will never be executed, … Read more
I see projects with different programming languages. When a new language comes in, it’s often trendy, and developers want pay for trying it out. Personally, I don’t like these mixed projects. I prefer ones using a single programming language, so any developer can work on any part of the project. The same goes for automated … Read more
In the world of software, changes are happening fast. Soon, we’ll be storing a ton of data, but not all of it is the same. Data comes in all shapes and sizes—like tables, hierarchies, and graphs. Even though they look different, they all end up stored as tables or hierarchies on the computer. For example, … Read more
The ability of AI systems to provide different results for the same question makes them unsuitable for verifying data in regression tests. This inconsistency undermines the reliability of AI’s assessments, making it difficult to trust their conclusions. Regression testing, on the other hand, relies on consistent and repeatable results to ensure that new features don’t … Read more