A Introduction to Mobile App Testing for New Products

Testing mobile applications across multiple platforms is tricky. Software developers are now faced with an increasingly heterogeneous mix of mobile devices and operating systems. Meanwhile, people have increasingly high expectations for their user experience. I serve as a board advisor to an Ann Arbor-based startup whose native mobile applications are a very important part of […]

Azure Functions Request Tests

I’ve been building up the infrastructure one could use to write request tests for a C# Azure Functions API. My goal is to write tests that are as close to end-to-end as I can get while still staying in the familiar confines of the xUnit test suite (and the productivity that comes from having the […]

6 Tips for Testing Large Legacy Codebases

Have you ever been dropped into a new project and asked to increase test coverage? Have you needed to provide confidence in the code, lower production failures, and make selling the stability of your product easier? You are likely in the daunting position of adding tests to a large (probably legacy) codebase. Tests provide value […]

DIY Factories with Pytest

Pytest’s fixtures are a pretty convenient route to dependency injection throughout your tests. They’re flexible, too, and involve very little “magic.” This means they’re easy to learn, understand, and use correctly. The Pytest documentation explains that a fixture can pass back anything to the caller, including a function. This allows you to essentially create parameterized […]

A Very, Very Lightweight Test Plan

When I first started to learn about testing, I found out about test plans. They looked impressive and professional. Many templates were available, with specific figures on how many P1, P2, and P3 defects were allowed before testing could move to a different phase, how many cycles of testing there would be, etc. They even […]

How to Test Storybook with Cypress

Storybook can be really useful for a team developing a web app. But like any software, it’s prone to rot when left untested. On my current project, I finally have a good way to test it. Here’s how!

Using Jest to Test Our Express-Backed React App

On a recent project, we used Jest to orchestrate the tests across our web app, which uses a combination of Puppeteer, SuperTest, and Enzyme for testing. Here’s an overview of how we wired up and tested each part of the app, the tools/libraries we used, and the orchestration we did to run all of the […]

Writing Better Test CLI Commands with Laravel and Artisan

Laravel’s Artisan CLI comes with a plethora of useful commands and functionality out of the box. Unfortunately, there’s one thing it doesn’t come with: an easy way to run different types of tests. On a recent project, our team had a desire to write Artisan commands that could run our tests, so we had one […]

Holding a Key Down with W3C WebdriverIO

Since the summer of 2019, WebdriverIO has fully supported the W3C WebDriver protocol (announced in this post). As part of upgrading to the latest v5 version of WebdriverIO, I decided to also switch over to using the W3C protocol for our tests that use Chrome / ChromeDriver. After switching to the W3C protocol, we found […]

LocalStack + Terraform + CircleCI for Lambda without AWS

On my current project, we’re using LocalStack in lieu of AWS for development and test. In this post, I’ll walk through how we’ve set it up and what we can do with it.

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