Marie Cruz
Senior Developer Advocate
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Marie Cruz is a Software Tester with over 10 years of experience and the co-author of the book Contract Testing in Action. Currently, she works as a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs.
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We talk about pact nirvana and how to achieve it, celebrating small wins, benefits of contract testing, enabling developers to test with modern tools and managing contracts at scale with Pactflow.
User stories are short and simple descriptions of a feature or functionality that are told from your user's perspective
In software testing, heuristics are like mental models or shortcuts that we as testers use to guide our work. I like to think of heuristics as strategies that help me generate new ideas on what to test and how to test it especially when I run out of ideas myself. Heuristics are particularly useful when it comes to doing exploratory testing because they give us a guideline on what to explore next.
A test idea is more about the general thought of what to test in a software. They are often generic and it involves looking at the wider picture.
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Marie and Nate provide a comprehensive guide to choosing the most suitable testing tools for various projects
As humans, we have been exposed to a lot of waiting times.
Learn about the importance of perceived performance and how it differs from objective performance.
Discover why page speed matters to deliver a product closer to our users' needs
Learn about the key differences between front-end and back-end performance testing and why it’s needed to perform both
Marie Drake solves the UI challenge from Test.bash(); 2022 using K6.
Elevate your UI to new heights with valuable perspectives from automation gurus