How side-projects help me practice the software development craft — Before writing this content, I was reading about software composition, and I had this insight. I was reading the Elements of JavaScript Style chapter of Eric Elliott’s Composing Software book, and then I thought, how lucky I am to keep open-source projects, such as the protractor-helper, or my website, to…

Learn how to optimize Cypress tests using API calls I’m happy to announce the launch of a new course on Udemy. Test automation with Cypress (intermediate) In this course, you will learn: How to set up the application under test (AUT) using Docker How to set up the test automation project with Cypress How to create basic GUI (graphical…

Development, test, performance, staging, canary, production… I have a theory (and some experience) that having fewer environments in the software ecosystem is better than having more of them. It’s a common practice in many software projects to have: The development environment — also known as the developer’s computer The development integrated environment — a remote environment…

Get to know a bit of the history behind protractor-helper and its new version If you automate or intend to automate tests of web applications with the Protractor framework, protractor-helper will help you on making them reliable. It does that by using the ExpectedConditions class, from Protractor, to ensure that the test scripts will only interact with elements, or run assertions on them, when…

My “2 cents” of some open source tools that I have used or have been using to ensure quality in software development projects — In this post, I will talk about my experiences with test automation using tools that support JavaScript. In the first part of the post, I will talk about tools for test automation of the graphical user interface or GUI. In the second part of the post, I will talk about…

Some examples of things we have to avoid if we are looking for efficient continuous integration — Have you already asked yourself why continuous integration is not providing value to your project or organization, even if you have all the tools and infrastructure needed for it? Maybe the problem is in other stages of the software development life cycle, or in the process and the way the…