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Framework review: Karate

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Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework. You don’t have to compile (Java) code. Just write tests in a readable syntax.

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Redbubble 🔴 My favorite place to buy geek stickers

wearing Redbubble

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Infrastructure testing (Ruby): InSpec + Azure

Infra testing is mostly uncharted territory

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Review: Digi.Me + UBDI

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Good idea. Terrible execution.

UBDI stands for Universal Basic Data Income, a word play on UBI. I heard about it in a TED talk from Jennifer Scott on “Why you should get paid for your data”. The concept was interesting:

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Cypress: PageObjects vs AppActions

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I use Selenium to write most of my automated checks, and the PageObjects pattern is a must. My current team is using Cypress and, to my surprise, this test framework recommends AppActions instead of PageObjects. So I decided to benchmark both patterns using the following criteria:

  • Can it abstract page selectors?
  • Can it abstract page actions?
  • Is it easy to write and maintain those abstractions?
  • Is it easy to write tests?