Like many folks, my 2020 and 2021 have not been ideal. 2020 had started pretty well! I spoke at CodeMash in Ohio in January, then at SWETUGG in Stockholm and EuroTestConf in Amsterdam in February. I had a lovely surprise 40th birthday party with my family in March. And then it all kinda went to …
TL;DR After 6 months of having various medical issues and not knowing why, I was diagnosed with a heart condition (nbd :D) and I have back surgery scheduled for the end of September, with up to a 1 year recovery time. I’ll be online shortly after I’m sure, but won’t be doing any public speaking …
I read an article not long ago about how they think a lot of people having allergic reactions to the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are allergic to PEG or Polyethylene Glycol. As someone with a known allergy to PEG, I thought I’d share some tips I wish I would have known over 10 years …
I’m excited to participate in the third C# Advent Calendar (my 2017 post was on combining UI and API automation with RestSharp and Selenium, and my 2018 post was about using the NUnit TestCaseData feature with your RestSharp tests to put a ton of tests in one) – you can check out the rest of …
I should have gotten a colonoscopy today. My dad had colo-rectal cancer, my brother had some pre-cancerous stuff, so I thought it’d behoove me to get checked. But what, you ask, does this have to do with software and testing? Read on, my friend. Read on. About 10 years ago I found out that I’m …
Wow that was difficult! Back on May 6th, I announced the contest for a Pro Ministry of Testing Dojo membership. I was inspired by Kristine Corbus, but was stunned that she only got 4 responses when she did this! I got SIXTY responses! Some squeaked in after the deadline, but I let them in anyway 😀 Applicants …
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how fortunate I am, and I’ve been looking for ways to pay back the community for what it has given me. I was inspired by Kristine Corbus to do a #PayItForward with a Pro Ministry of Testing Dojo Membership, so here it is! Also inspired by Kristine, if you …
It’s hard for me to think about 2018 with fondness. It went to shit before the halfway mark, and it’s really hard to think about any positives. But I know a lot of good stuff happened, I just need to take an actual look back rather than getting stuck in the bad shit (which is …
Last year, I had a great time contributing to the C# Advent Calendar with a post on combining API and UI automation. I was excited to sign up once again for the 2nd Annual C# Advent Calendar! Check out the page here with the full calendar: https://crosscuttingconcerns.com/The-Second-Annual-C-Advent This year, I want to talk about smoke …
I have written before a few times about implementing automated tests for REST APIs using C# (here and here). In those posts, I’ve used a utility method to handle the actual sending of the HTTP request, and another one to read the response. These methods help to illustrate what our automated tests are actually doing. However, I …