When we first started evaluation what to use for automation at work, we started off with this idea of using Cucumber. In a previous post I briefly talked about Cucumber and it’s Gerkin syntax. This syntax can be nice for some, and can be just another layer of maintenance for others. Rather than discuses the pros […]
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I don’t know about other people, but when it comes to source control systems, I don’t like putting everything in my repository. That’s why tools like Nuget exist, so we don’t have to waste space in the repository for 3rd party stuff. In svn, putting tons of crap into your repo isn’t that big of
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This is the second post in my Project Euler series (if series is the right word). The first problem is here. Problem 2 Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,
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In my previous post I explained the 2 main options for networking in VMWare Fusion. Enough with the back story. In this post I’m assuming that you are using NAT and you want to set up port forwarding. VMWare Fusion still has no GUI for setting up port forwarding, so we have to go into the
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A while back, I switched over to using a MacBook Pro at work, and I’ve loved it. We have a company policy that all laptop hard drives must be fully encrypted. This poses a problem for the would be BootCampers. When you use the default utilities, you can’t have both OS X and Windows encrypted.
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As anyone who glances at my posts will quickly notice, I’ve been on a bit of an automation kick recently. I find automation to be refreshingly simple and fun. I’ve been pushing a lot at work to integrate automated tests into our development cycle, and I’m hoping that all my work will pay off soon.
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A while back one of my coworkers sent out a link to Scott Hanselman’s ‘Am I really a developer or just a good googler?’. As you can probably imagine from reading the title, the article proposes an interesting philosophical question that I’m sure a good many of us have considered. Am I actually a (good)
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Calabash and Capybara are both Ruby frameworks for automating UI testing. For anyone who doesn’t know/is new to this thing, Ruby is an interpreted language. Anyone who has Ruby installed can just open up a terminal window and type irb and they will be put into an interactive Ruby console. This is wonderful because it
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When our managers decided to use Calaba.sh for our Android/iOS UI Automation, they really chose to use Cucumber for the Android/iOS and Web products. This just happened to mean Calaba.sh and Capybara. The theory behind this is that Cucumber’s syntax is all nice and pretty, easy to understand because it uses natural language. However, Cucumber
Windows Capybara Setup Read More »
At work we’ve been doing a technical book club. It’s been a lot of fun to learn about technologies that we don’t actively use at work. We worked through a (currently) free online jQuery book found here. We had pretty ok results with that – It’s kind of obvious based on the quality that they
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