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I left the dentist after having a root canal at 12.30pm, and joined This week in Quality just after 1pm. As a joke, when I joined stage, ...
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I thought it would be helpful to do an AMA on The MoTaverse!A lot has been changing over the past couple of years. It's been tough for us...
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In module 9 of the Software Quality Engineering Certificate, Barry Ehigiator writes about potential pitfalls in QE. Amongst others, he me...
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Taking a shot at the Ask MoTaverse Anything. πŸ™‚I’ve been spending a lot of time on mobile automation β€” working with Appium, improving test...
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AGENTS.mdTitles must describe the expected user behaviour, written from the user's perspective: test('As a user, I can create a new proje...
Selectors: User-Centric Locators

Prefer locators that reflect how a user perceives the UI, in this order of prefer... image
Writing an agents.md that outlines Playwright standards isn’t just documentation for its own sakeβ€”it directly improves how reliably and e...
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A printscreen taken from my VScode at the end of this evenings session, which provided an introduction to using Playwright Agents and Cla...
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I was just at a test tool demo today, and I had a moment. Test cases are no longer carefully crafted and unique, they are generated....
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At the top is written "Hey, has this been deployed in dev yet?"
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Heleen Van Grootven
We do try to be subtle...(Sometimes it actually wasn't in dev yet!)
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Getting myself in the mood for today's episode of Software Testing Live, I've gone for the "grab what MoT merch I can find" look.
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