Hacktoberfest! – Celebrating Open Source Software
A quick introduction – Packages, Libraries, and Repos Before we begin, if you’re familiar with these terms, you can skip to the next section. As software developers, we often bring other …
Becoming A Trail-Blazor
The software development landscape is often an image of a rushing river more than a stalwart mountain. With the introduction of WebAssembly, many languages are working to implement their own solutions …
Git Basics
The information for this blog post was taken from the content of a Git Basics training at EG’s 2020 QA Retreat. The purpose of this training was to provide a baseline for Automated Test …
Containerization Fundamentals
Imagine: You are joining a team developing an application as a [test automation engineer|business analyst|developer]. There is a Dev, Stage and Production environment for the application (and the …
Goals and that 2020 Vision
“2020 Vision?” Really? I know. It’s overused, a bad dad joke, the puniest of puns, and as cliché as they come. But, now that we got that out of the way: With last year and last decade behind us, what …
Bringing new life to a Sales application suite. And DevOps!
A little over a year ago, one of our clients came to us and asked if we would take over a project that had fallen into disrepair. Much effort had been expended to get the project off the ground …
Scrum Happens!
This is a special week at E-g. We have the privilege of hosting some valued clients in Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner certification training. We brought in Daniel Gullo of Apple Brook Consulting …
Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 3
In our previous post, Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 2, we dug into the code. We demonstrated how everything is tied together. We outlined the BasePage, WebDriverResource, and …
Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 2
In our previous post, Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 1, we described how to manage Technical Debt and the importance of using a Page Model. We also gave an overview of the classes used in …
Selenium Java: An Intelligent Example Part 1
In our introductory post, A Survey of the Automated Testing Landscape, we defined the problems we often find in automated testing. In this series, we will walk through an intelligent example of a …
A Survey of the Automated Testing Landscape
The tools available in test automation these days are pretty amazing. The options are getting a little overwhelming. You could choose to pay for an expensive product that would make a lot of decisions …
E-gAT: E-gineering Automated Test, part 3
Previously, on Avatar… In prior introductory posts (part 1, part 2), we covered why E-gAT is a toolkit and not a framework, dropped some philosophy around leveraging the power of an organization’s …
E-gAT: E-gineering Automated Test, part 2
Page Object Pattern: Smart, and… From our considerable experience in software, we’ve learned the great value of leveraging industry best practices and patterns – because the industry at large has even …
Introducing E-gAT: E-gineering Automated Test, part 1
Making the Most of Opportunities Early in 2015 we had some time available for a short internal project. One E-gineer had just rolled off an engagement where the client was building automated test …
On Launching a Website
You know, many boat launchings come with ceremony. Such as this account Two fryers and an attendant went into the vessel, and kneeling down prayed halfe an houre, and layd their hands on every mast, …
Running Multiple Versions of IE on Win 7 with Virtual PC
My coworker Chad sent out a link to this article on the SitePoint blog a long time ago (probably about a year and a half ago) and I’ve been meaning to try it since that day, but just …