I recently read A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley, Ph.D. I learned a lot about how the brain works when learning new material and many great tips on effective and ineffective studying....

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I recently came across a great tool to have in your tool belt. If you are a Web Developer wanting to deploy your static web projects online for the world to see, you need a way to complete this task...

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I recently read the book "Clean Code" and learned some great tips on writing better code to make life easier for yourself and those on your team...

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As developers, whether just beginners or seasoned pros, we always need to go online and search for information related to a problem we’re trying to solve. We may need to do this a few times a week or even multiple times in one day....

A Tool to Quickly Search Documentation

ECMA2016, otherwise known as ES7 syntax, consists of just two new features compared to the massive number of features introduced in ES6. The new features are...

Update Your JavaScript Toolset with ES7

Are you a test engineer or an aspiring professional looking to level up your software testing skills in today's fast-paced agile environments? Look no further!...

Testing React Applications with Postman and WebdriverIO

Become a leader in mobile application testing by earning the ISTQB® Certified Tester Mobile Application Testing (CT-MAT)....

ISTQB Mobile Application Testing Certification Course

As students head back to school, it's crucial to have a game plan for learning effectively. Unfortunately, many students rely on ineffective study strategies such as re-reading texts, skimming notes, and cramming the night before an exam. These techniques may help you pass the test in the short term, but they won't help you remember the information long-term...

How to Learn Effectively in the New School Year: Spaced Repetition and Retrieval Practice

Enhance your testing skills using my course and earn the Udemy ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level Agile Technical Tester (CTAL-ATT) certification....

ISTQB Advanced Level Agile Technical Tester (ATT) Certification Course

To ensure that your user stories are being adequately tested, it is essential to write clear and concise acceptance criteria. Acceptance criteria will help you and your team understand what needs to be tested and how the story should be considered complete. This blog post will discuss how to write testable user story acceptance criteria. We will also provide a few tips on making sure that your stories are ready for testing!...

How to Write Testable User Story Acceptance Criteria

A common myth about software testing is that it's only done at the end of the development process. Fortunately, this isn't the case. Instead, testing should be an integral part of the development process and start early. This blog will dispel this myth and explore the importance of testing throughout the software development process...

Software Testing Myths: Testing Is Only Done at the End of the Development Process

There are seven principles of software testing that provide a framework for quality assurance. These principles are important for any tester to know and understand...

The 7 Principles of Software Testing

Testing is a process that is essential to the quality of any product. By understanding the seven steps of the testing process, Test Engineers can have a working model for how to test products and ensure their quality...

The Seven Steps of The Testing Process

If you're looking for a career that will allow you to work with the latest technology and help make products more reliable, a career in test engineering may be right for you...

How to Start A Career as A Test Engineer

In this blog post we will learn the basics of performance testing using JMeter...

Performance Testing Basics with JMeter

In part 4, we will generate HTML Reports and run tests via GitHub Actions...

Creating Automated API Tests with Postman: Part 4

In part 3, we will test the POST Update Client and DELETE Client endpoints...

Creating Automated API Tests with Postman: Part 3

In part 2, we will test the POST Add New Client, GET Clients, and GET Get Client endpoints..

Creating Automated API Tests with Postman: Part 2

In part 1, we will learn about the API endpoints and run it in a Docker container...

Creating Automated API Tests with Postman: Part 1

In part 2 of this tutorial, we write a test for the native Android application using the local Appium server and via BrowserStack...

Test a Native Android App with Appium and WebdriverIO: Part 2

For this tutorial, we will test a native Android application using Appium, WebdriverIO, and BrowserStack...

Test a Native Android App with Appium and WebdriverIO: Part 1

In the fifth part of the series, we will test the "DELETE" api/delete-client route...

Test an API with Karate: Part 5

In the fourth part of the series, we will test the api/get-client and api/update-client routes and learn how to create feature files that accept dynamic data...

Test an API with Karate: Part 4

For the third part of the series, we will learn how to configure the karate configuration file based on...

Test an API with Karate: Part 3

For the second part of the series, we will learn how to configure the karate configuration file based on...

Test an API with Karate: Part 2

In part 1, we will learn how to bootstrap a Karate project using Maven, complete a high-level overview of the project structure, and...

Test an API with Karate: Part 1

Learn how to create a custom render method to test Redux consuming React components in this short video tutorial..

How to Test Redux Consuming React Components

For many people, to study means using strategies such as "rereading" chapters until it "feels like they know the material" or "cramming" the night before an exam. However, "rereading" fails more times than not....

How to Make Learning Stick

I recently worked with Packt Publishing to write a book about testing React components with React Testing Library...

Simplify Testing with React Testing Library

I recently did a podcast with my employer, Method, about the journey from teaching to my current role as a Test Engineer...

My Career Journey

I recently created a blog on accessible websites hosted on my employer, Method's website...

Opening the Web to Everyone: Building ADA Compliant Websites

Experience-based testing is an informal testing technique based on the tester's skill, intuition, and experience with similar applications...

Experienced-Based Testing Techniques

White-box testing focuses on the internal structure, design, and code implementation using tools such as Jest for JavaScript, JUnit for Java, and Pytest for Python...

White-Box Testing Techniques

Black-box testing is one of the most common methods of testing...

Black-Box Testing Techniques

In the part 5 finale of the series, we will use Postman to test API routes for the feedback form...

Test a Feedback Form: Part 5

In parts 3 and 4 of the series, we will test the Radio Button and do integration testing...

Test a Feedback Form: Parts 3 & 4

In parts 1 and 2 of the series, we will introduce the application and write our first tests...

Test a Feedback Form: Parts 1 & 2

In the final part of the series, we will write a test to verify the expected user flow behavior of the client address book...

Test a Client Address Book: Part 7

In part six of the series, we will learn how to use the Cypress Test Runner to execute tests against various browsers such as Chrome and Edge...

Test a Client Address Book: Part 6

In part five of the series, we will refactor our existing test to resemble user behavior by installing and using the Cypress Testing Library...

Test a Client Address Book: Part 5

In part four of the series, we will create our first Cypress test to verify expected results for a search on Google...

Test a Client Address Book: Part 4

In part three of the series, we will learn how to configure the Cypress.json file to make Cypress behave based on our project needs...

Test a Client Address Book: Part 3

In part two of the series, we will learn how to install and run Cypress against our application...

Test a Client Address Book: Part 2

In this mini series, we will learn how test a Client Address Book created with Nextjs....

Test a Client Address Book: Part 1

In part 3 of the series, we will cover const and let variables, arrow functions, rest and spread operators, classes, and the fetch method...

ES6 TypeScript: Part 3

In part 2 of the series, we will look at the every, some, reduce methods and template literals...

ES6 TypeScript: Part 2

In part 1 of the series, we will look at the forEach, map, filter, and find methods...

ES6 TypeScript: Part 1

In today’s information technology-driven world, learning how to code has never been a more fantastic time. In my opinion, learning how to code prepares you for the future...

Why You Should Learn How to Code in 2018

As you become fluent in writing code in a particular language, you will start noticing blocks of code written over and over. Writing the same code can be tedious and take the focus away from organizing and creating your project. A solution to this problem is using snippets...

How to Increase Workflow with Custom Snippets in Visual Studio Code

The ECMA2017 (ES8) version of JavaScript consists of many new features to help you write cleaner code. The features we will go over in this article are...

Enhance Your Javascript Toolbox with 5 Easy to use ES8 Tools

So, months ago, you may have heard that Yarn was a potentially better alternative to npm to manage your project dependencies. When Yarn came out, highlights included faster download speeds, the ability to cache previously downloaded packages to enable faster downloads...

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