Test naming convention

best-practices

How to introduce automated checks that will guarantee that conventions are followed in an example of test naming convention. I’m going to focus on creating automated process that will verify if test names do match conventions. Automation will allow us to forget about the rule because the computer will ensure it’s followed. Test that I’m going to introduce will be living documentation inside the project and ensure no one will miss nor forget about the way we group tests.

14 Mar 2019

Introducing fluentXPath

java

Some time ago I’ve started working on updating automated tests written in selenium with java. After working a bit with it I’ve noticed that from time to time constructing XPath expression can get ugly. We are writing our tests in pure java and "ugliness" usually comes from string concatenation when some extra parameters must be taken into account. I’ve decided to write something that might help a bit with building XPaths without string concatenation.

22 Jan 2019

Multiple teams and monolith

other

At work I’m are engaged in the maintenance and development of a pretty big legacy monolithic application. Some time ago team size basically doubled. To keep things simple and activate more people we decided that we need to split the huge team into smaller more focused parties. Here is how we are working on many features of the same code base in single monolith with multiple teams.

10 Jan 2019

Testing randomness

java

While deep diving into the code I very often see people struggle when testing random changing/things. There is a really simple solution for this and in this blog post, I’m going to show you "one simple trick" that will fix this problem.

20 Mar 2018

Testing MVC in Spring

java

Most of java web applications is built on top of the Spring Framework. Spring has pretty good support for testing and it is a mistake not to take advantage of features it offers. I’ve been developing various applications using Spring MVC for some time and I’ve noticed few patterns for testing that do work.

30 Jan 2018

On behavior verifications

best practices

When I’ve got some free time I try to add new features to springmock. Lately, after adding some new stuff I realized that double definition parsing class has more than one responsibility (class parsing, naming, definition creation, etc). So I’ve decided it’s time to refactor it and split responsibilities into dedicated classes. Once I did that and tests in the shared kernel started to pass I executed mvn verify just to be sure that everything was working and it wasn’t…​

6 Sep 2017

Page object pattern for javascript components testing

javascript

Page object pattern is common practice when writing automated tests using selenium. It allows to gather all possible operations on the page in one place and hide page implementation details from test case. Page object pattern can be used in the same way for angular directives, react and [put framework name here] components.

23 Feb 2017