Learn how to quickly search an array in an efficient manner We have all been there before. You are in the technical round of a job interview, and the interviewer asks you to write out a binary search. If you are like me, you may lock up. Let me be…

How to send HTML emails using the Go standard library — I started learning Go in July to support my transition from Senior QA Engineer to a position as a Software Engineer. During this time, I binged Udemy courses, books, and articles to learn the ins and outs of the language. …

A passing a test may not always be a good thing. — Rooting through a test flake can be an arduous and frustrating experience. Staring at lines of code in an attempt to determine where or why a failure is occurring is mentally taxing. I have personally fallen victim to hours-long debugging sessions in order to fix a flakey set of tests. …

Detailing what it means to be a tester on an agile project team. — I have been reading through Agile Testing: A Practical Guide For Testers And Agile Teams, by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, when I found a small portion that discussed the existence of a “Bill of Rights” for programmers and customers. …

Learn how to effectively debug Cypress test code. — Debugging — we have all been there. Staring at lines of code for hours on end wondering why something broke the way it did. Debugging automation code can be a frustrating and mentally exhausting experience. …

Watch your response rate skyrocket by following these simple tips. — Are you feeling frustrated with getting ghosted when searching for a new job? Trust me, I have been there. Getting ghosted hurts on both a personal and emotional level. …

Learn how to test multiple user journeys in a single test. — Have you ever written a series of tests that were so similar, you wanted to join them together rather than run them separately? I have, quite frequently. When I notice that I am falling into this pattern I turn to parameterization, something that I became familiar with while writing tests…

Learn how to capture network calls for stubbing, assertions, and more. — If you have used Cypress in the past you should be familiar with the cy.server() and cy.route() methods. They enabled engineers to handle XHR requests within the browser for patterns such as mocking responses, aborting requests, and smart waiting. Deprecated in Cypress 6.0.0, both cy.route() and cy.server() …

How to use the Cypress request library for API calls and API testing. — Are you tired of maintaining a Postman collection for API testing outside of your automation framework? I worked for a company that used Postman/Newman for API testing and Cypress for end-to-end. We would manually export Postman collections, then check the export into project repositories. …