I had a great conversation with David Giard on his show, Technology and Friends, the other week and he asked a question that I’ve been thinking about since. “Tell me about the code that’s in QA and testing” – I answered briefly in the podcast, but have been thinking more and more about what kind …
TL;DR When people ask me how I got back into coding after years away, my answer is essentially to have a project you can use to either start or add to (either production code or tests), find videos/trainings on the changes since you last coded, and don’t be afraid to just write some code and …
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 …
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 …
It’s been a bit quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve been very busy with creating a workshop and new talk for TestBash Manchester! Now that it’s done, I can finally blog about some of the stuff I did to create the workshop, and release an app for folks to practice with! Understanding The Problem I …
I recently participated in my company’s 24 hour hackathon. I pulled together my tweets on Storify here: https://storify.com/g33klady/jurassic-hack-ql-technology-24-hour-hackathon-of-2 It was a super cool experience, and I’m looking forward to learning more 😀 HilaryI’m Hilary Weaver, also known as g33klady on the Internets. I’m a Senior Quality Engineer working remotely near Detroit, with 19+ years in software …
I signed up for the C# Advent Calendar with this post – be sure to check out the rest of the blog posts in the calendar! This post assumes you’ve got some experience with C# and Visual Studio, so I won’t be over-explaining some things. Comment if you get stuck or have questions! If you’re …
EDIT: One mindful reader noted that I should be using good practices to protect my code from SQL Injection. So there are some updates below, and the code is also updated! I used this as my guide: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlcommand.parameters.aspx One part of my talk and resources on Testing RESTful Web Services that I hinted at but didn’t …
I recently presented my talk Testing RESTful Web Services for the first time at the QL Technology Conference in Detroit. In this talk, I cover why we should test web services, and how to test RESTful web services both with tools like Postman, and C# and NUnit. I was not prepared for, mid-demo, resounding applause …