Software testing, dev craft, and field notes.

I'm João Farias. I write about software quality, testing strategy, and the messy reality of building software.

Latest posts

Coding Katas for Automation in Web Testing - Exercise 1 of 3

Apr 4, 2021 #automation #kata #web #selenium

Practice makes it perfect. Time to apply the old saying to improve our skills in automation for testing website interfaces.

One lesson from 2020 and plans for 2021

Feb 26, 2021 #video #youtube

That's A Bug is back! Here let's talk about one important thing I learned last year and what we will see in 2021.

5 Things to Read This Week - 04th May 2020

May 4, 2020 #5-things-to-read

Five links on new IntelliJ features, how the beginner may master the master, the true power of automation in testing, patterns of branching, and how Integrated Tests Are A Scam.

5 Things to Read This Week - 27th Apr 2020

Apr 27, 2020 #5-things-to-read

Five links on automation tips, hiring in IT, contract testing with Javascript, software engineering state in 2020, and testing teams after COVID-19.

Intro to Visual Testing with Percy & Ember

Apr 22, 2020 #percy #visual testing #ember #javascript

A bad visual aspect can be a death sentence for your application, even if an user can perform every intended action on it. On top of that, modern web apps have immensely complicated CSS structures to create their visual aspects. Therefore, summing the risk of bad visual and the difficult in keep every aspect of the code related to it under control, visual testing clearly becomes an essential part of any testing strategy. In this post we give a first on the path computer-assisted visual testing, using Percy.