QA Challenge Accepted 4.0 conference was held on 21th of April 2018 in Sofia at International Expo Center. I witnessed overall good organization and interesting lectures. All slides were in English, while most of the presentations were in Bulgarian and some in English. This could be a little bit confusing if your English is not …
This article is a guide for a setup of a new Ubuntu Jenkins master. The setup is made entirely via the terminal, without any GUI client. The migration of the data is done through Windows machine. Ubuntu is selected as OS for Jenkins master because it is very light and with good performance. After the …
When you have big Jenkins log, the recommended approach is to go through it and fix exceptions causes. Unfortunately sometimes the speed of increasing the log size is so fast, that you need a temporary solution to stop that hard disk eating monster. Recently we experienced a huge Jenkins master log on Ubuntu. In one …
Recently I started setting up Jenkins server in Ubuntu 16.04.3 machine. Check out this article if you are interested in the Ubuntu Jenkins master setup. I will start with the Ubuntu terminal commands that I found super essential. Folders and files manipulation man Display help for any command. Example: man ls lsLists current folder contents. …
XPath is a language that helps you navigate through XML (eXtensible Markup Language) documents. Website pages contain HTML, which is an XML like language. For automation purposes such as locating HTML elements you can use XPath. Many colleagues prefer to use id and this is quite OK as long as the id is present for the wanted …
I was pleased to attend ISTA conference 2017 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. My previous article was about the presentations in the first ISTA day, this article will be for the lectures that I attended in the second conference day. Are You Managing? Steve Odart presentation was about management and the balance that should …
I was pleased to attend ISTA conference 2017 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The conference goal is to present innovations in software technologies and automation. In this article I will write my personal opinion about the lectures. There have been 3 tracks with lectures that run simultaneously, so I choose the most interesting from …
I spend my working time testing web applications (web sites). If you do the same, you may find useful the online resources for software testing in this article. You can also check out my article for great browser extensions. Virtual Machines I sometimes need a virtual machine for reproducing a specific bug. Microsoft offers ready to …
In this article I will present you more than 20 browser plugins that I find most useful for testing purposes. Most of them are Chrome extensions, the others are Firefox add-ons. Visual Testing Design Testing You can use Window Resizer for testing responsiveness of a web page. Although it is easy to use, I prefer …
Which testing type will you start with? In this article I will explain the most common testing types for web applications with simple words. I will not use ISTQB or other certification authority glossary. I will give tool examples and starting points for more information. Security is a top priority. If you are given entire …