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 Developers. Often times, automated testers find ourselves performing only a few Git commands. On some projects, we may clone the main project repository but make few commits. On other projects, we may have separate repositories for automated testing code and may be the only user, versus working on a… [continue]
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 several other applications it integrates with). Dev is very unstable, constantly down and bloated with testing data. Something breaks and an investigation is required to determine if it was bad data, a new code change, or some external dependency. Or worse, nothing happens at all, and Dev just stays broken until the… [continue]
Training and Professional Development: Caring for and Feeding our People
Over the last 20+ years, I have attended several training sessions and conferences. Some have been good, and some have been fairly poor. In conversations with a few other EG folks, we were trying to boil it all down to determine what makes for a good training or conference. Why do we put forth the effort? What are we trying to accomplish? When a company commits to the level of investment in its people that continuing education requires, it should… [continue]