TestBash NYC Competition - 5 Free Tickets!!!

So TestBash is coming to New York!!! You can read why here. Having been extensively involved with Ministry of Testing for many years now, I can’t tell you how awesome this is! Attending a TestBash conference is truly a unique...

Interviewing - Question at CAST2015

So I tuned into the CAST live stream again tonight, and I caught the end of Rob Bowyer’s talk titled “Why Should I Hire You?”, because I am bloody awesome! Sorry I digressed there. From what I heard it sounded...

Using BDD Tools To Write Automated Checks != BDD

Using Cucumber, SpecFlow or similar tools to write your automated checks, is not doing BDD. Cucumber, SpecFlow or similar tools are not testing tools ¹. I believe they were designed to facilitate the process of BDD. Sure they could be accompanied...

Testability Question at CAST2015

I was watching the live stream of CAST2015 earlier, in particular I was listening to Maria Kedemo talking about “Visualising Testability”. Having done her’s and Ben Kellys workshop at LetsTest, I was interested to hear Maria talk about this topic...

Tail Log File And Play A Sound When Keyword Hit

So on the testers.chat Slack team today, Maik messaged:- Does anyone know a way/tool to watch a log file and play an audio sound, if a certain keyword is found (e.g. ERROR) there is “log watch” for windows from James Bach, but...