Software testing, development craft, and notes from the trenches by João Farias.https://thatsabug.com/en-ushttps://thatsabug.com/blog/three_exercises_first/https://thatsabug.com/blog/three_exercises_first/Practice makes it perfect. Time to apply the old saying to improve our skills in automation for testing website interfaces.Sun, 04 Apr 2021 08:00:00 GMTblogautomationkatawebseleniumkotlinhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2021-02-26/one_lesson_2020_future_2021/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2021-02-26/one_lesson_2020_future_2021/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.Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:00:00 GMTblogvideoyoutubehttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-05-04/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-05-04/5_things/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.Mon, 04 May 2020 08:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-04-27/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-04-27/5_things/Five links on automation tips, hiring in IT, contract testing with Javascript, software engineering state in 2020, and testing teams after COVID-19.Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/intro_to_percy/https://thatsabug.com/blog/intro_to_percy/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.Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMTblogpercyvisual testingemberjavascripttestinghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-04-20/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-04-20/5_things/Five links on how Stack Overflow made its dark theme, building a testing strategy, modifying requests with Charles Proxy, time saving software, and the difference between Performance and Load Testing.Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/bugs-real-world/2020-04-17/bugs/https://thatsabug.com/bugs-real-world/2020-04-17/bugs/First post where we will see some nasty bugs that appeared on the news.Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMTbugs-real-worldbugs-real-worldhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/gentle_intro_mutation_testing/https://thatsabug.com/blog/gentle_intro_mutation_testing/Who tests the tests? Let's see how code coverage doesn't tell the whole story and talk about the other half of the coin in automated checkingWed, 15 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMTblogmutation-testingkotlinpitesthttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-04-13/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-04-13/5_things/Five links on exploratory testing, testing the Linux Kernel, Refused Bequest code smell, Corona crisis and how open source is helping in the fight.Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/spring_learning_week0/https://thatsabug.com/blog/spring_learning_week0/I am learning Spring using Kotlin only. In this post, I will describe what are my goals and the path I will walk to reach them.Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:00:00 GMTblogspringspring-learninghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-03-09/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-03-09/5_things/Five links on thinking, poor documentation, job negotiation, gatekeeping, and understating your own testingMon, 09 Mar 2020 08:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-02-03/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2020-02-03/5_things/Five links on nature of Testing, great software architects, trust, and Firefox VPN serviceMon, 03 Feb 2020 09:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/books/https://thatsabug.com/blog/books/The list of 39 books I've read in 2019.Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:00:00 GMTblogreading2019https://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_5/https://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_5/Continuous Performance Testing - The First StepMon, 02 Dec 2019 09:00:00 GMTblogjmeterjmeter-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_4/https://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_4/We will look how to get access to Google Drive and upload some text as a fileWed, 27 Nov 2019 19:00:00 GMTblogjmeterjmeter-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-11-25/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-11-25/5_things/Five links on Waterfall, risk analysis, conventions, exploratory testing, and effective daily scrumsMon, 25 Nov 2019 09:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-10-22/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-10-22/5_things/Five links on great talks - no reading, just watching :DTue, 22 Oct 2019 11:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-10-14/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-10-14/5_things/Five links to read this week on agility as change, exploratory testing, Example Mapping, Clean Architecture, and micromanagementMon, 14 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-09-24/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-09-24/5_things/Five links to read this week on code review, improving the Testing Pyramid, the Water Leak Approach, the importance of the Sprint Goal, and Risk Analysis for testing.Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-09-09/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-09-09/5_things/Five links to read this week on hiring, project evalulation, agile testing, free and open source cellphones, and estimation.Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:00:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-09-02/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-09-02/5_things/Five links to read this week on burnout and personality, support issues in Scrum, Ember testing, testing AI and new Java featuresMon, 02 Sep 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/and_we_are_back/https://thatsabug.com/blog/and_we_are_back/After a little while, That's a Bug is backThu, 01 Aug 2019 11:00:00 GMTbloghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/back_in_september/https://thatsabug.com/blog/back_in_september/We are back in SeptemberFri, 28 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTbloghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_3/https://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_3/Time to add more specific validations to the responses JMeter getsFri, 28 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogjmeterjmeter-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-06-25/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-06-25/5_things/Five links to read this week on evolution in frontend design, importance of correct abstractions, Chaos Engineering, anti-pattern of hardening sprint, and database testing Tue, 25 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readdesignfrontendhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_2/https://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_2/After extending our suite, we ended up with a lot of duplicated code and now we have a lot of work to make any change. Let's fix this problem.Fri, 21 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogjmeterjmeter-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/5_things-2019-06-17/https://thatsabug.com/blog/5_things-2019-06-17/Five links to read this week on JavaScript, test cases, automation teams, quality, and goal focusMon, 17 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-read2019-06-17https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-06-10/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-06-10/5_things/Five links to read this week on programming languages and bugs, unit testing and deep workMon, 10 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_1-jmeter_basics/https://thatsabug.com/blog/jmeter_1-jmeter_basics/Let's learn the basic components of JMeter, shall we?Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogjmeterjmeter-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-06-03/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-06-03/5_things/Five links to read this week on anti-patterns, BDD, Scrum, team building, and graph toolsMon, 03 Jun 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readpatternBDDscrumqualitygraphhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/5_things/https://thatsabug.com/blog/5_things/Five Bob Martin's talks to watch this weekMon, 27 May 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/first_experience_a11y_testing/https://thatsabug.com/blog/first_experience_a11y_testing/A short report of my first experiences with Accessibility Testing for the Ministry of Testing Bloggers ClubThu, 23 May 2019 23:15:00 GMTbloga11y-testinghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-20/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-20/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on software architecture, presentations, testing metrics, idleness in testing teams, and refactoring BDD scenariosMon, 20 May 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readarchitecturepresentationmetricsteamBDDhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-16/the_learning_quadrant/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-16/the_learning_quadrant/Thu, 16 May 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogcareerlearningpersonal-developmenthttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-13/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-13/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on JS documentation, a11y problems in the Domino's app, technical aspects of agility, testing beyond the Pyramid and a bunch of emojis for GitHubMon, 13 May 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readjavascripta11y-testingagiletestinggithttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-06/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-05-06/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on skills for agile success, James Bach on testing, hiring, information to test, and mistakes that Scrum Master makeMon, 06 May 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readagiletestinghiringinformationscrumhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-03-25/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-03-25/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on badges, questions, the science of testing, interviews and the wrong way of using the backlogMon, 25 Mar 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readbacklogwhyexploratory-testinginterviewhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-03-18/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-03-18/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on testing podcasts, random checking, backlogs, Visual Testing and a book on Web API DesignMon, 18 Mar 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readpodcasttestingbacklogscrumvisual-testinghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/3_no_tech_career_boost/https://thatsabug.com/blog/3_no_tech_career_boost/Hard and soft skills are crucial to become a great professional, but there are some things they don't teach in school that can help you to boost your careerThu, 14 Mar 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogcareerhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/postman_async/https://thatsabug.com/blog/postman_async/As in life, our actions in Postman have consequences. Let's learn how to explore affected entities.Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogapi-testingpostmanpostman-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-03-04/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-03-04/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on tools for cross-browser testing, hiring of top-level people, problems with AI, testability and the real reason for automationMon, 04 Mar 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readcross-browserhiringAItestabilityautomationhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-02-11/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-02-11/5thingstoread/Five things to readMon, 11 Feb 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readjavascriptcode-reviewgitretrospectivehttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-02-04/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-02-04/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on agility, quality culture and API TestingMon, 04 Feb 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readscrumquality-culturetestingapi-testingget-things-donehttps://thatsabug.com/blog/postman_runner/https://thatsabug.com/blog/postman_runner/Let's learn how to run all Postman requests with ONE clickFri, 01 Feb 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogapi-testingpostmanpostman-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-01-28/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-01-28/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on page objects, estimation, test design + exploration, react testing, and user storiesMon, 28 Jan 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readautomationestimationtest-designexploratoryreactscrumhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-01-21/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-01-21/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on testing in Javascript, aphorisms, test cases, processes and ownership, and professional programmingMon, 21 Jan 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readjavascriptphilosophytest-caseprocessprogramminghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-01-14/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2019-01-14/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on coding interviews, Scrum and Testing, meaning of Q.A., and functional programming beautyMon, 14 Jan 2019 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readtechnical-interviewscrumQAfunctional-programminghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/intro_postman_trello/https://thatsabug.com/blog/intro_postman_trello/First steps with Postman using Trello APIThu, 10 Jan 2019 23:15:00 GMTblogapi-testingpostmanpostman-serieshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/books_in_2018/https://thatsabug.com/blog/books_in_2018/The list of 43 books I've read in 2018Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogreading2018https://thatsabug.com/blog/firefox_color_contrast_testing/https://thatsabug.com/blog/firefox_color_contrast_testing/Firefox 64 shipped with a new feature for Color contrast TestingWed, 12 Dec 2018 23:15:00 GMTbloga11y-testingfirefoxhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-12-10/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-12-10/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on micro services on frontend, development roles, basis of testing and CSS checking on Ember.js AppsMon, 10 Dec 2018 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readtestingmicro-servicesvisual-testinghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-12-04/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-12-04/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on API testing, software performance, Postman, Scrum, and testing toolsTue, 04 Dec 2018 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readapi-testingperformancepostmanscrumtoolshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-26/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-26/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week on agile, planning, Cypress, and context-driven testingMon, 26 Nov 2018 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readcontext-drivenagileplanningcypresstestinghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-19/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-19/5thingstoread/Five links to read this weekMon, 19 Nov 2018 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readaccessibilitycoachingautomationagilehttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-12/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-12/5thingstoread/Five links to read this weekMon, 12 Nov 2018 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readtestingrefactoringagilelifehttps://thatsabug.com/blog/why_automation_will_not_save_you/https://thatsabug.com/blog/why_automation_will_not_save_you/Many companies start focusing on Automation and fail. Let's see three common reasons for thisFri, 09 Nov 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingautomationhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-05/5thingstoread/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-11-05/5thingstoread/Five links to read this week Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:15:00 GMTblog5-things-to-readtestingcontract-testinghttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-10-29/5thingstoread_1/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-10-29/5thingstoread_1/Five links to read this week Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingestimationcareer5-things-to-readhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-08-28/5_links_refactoring/https://thatsabug.com/blog/2018-08-28/5_links_refactoring/5 links which talks refactoring in different contexts Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogrefactoringhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/scrum-testing-plan/https://thatsabug.com/blog/scrum-testing-plan/Mini-waterfall and separated/uncoordinated groups of developers and testers is a common problem. In this post, I will describe a simple planning ceremony to better integrate team members in testing activities.Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogscrumagiletestingplanningautomationexploratoryhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/the-scribe-oath-for-testers/https://thatsabug.com/blog/the-scribe-oath-for-testers/Some thoughts on Bob Martin's ethics guides from a tester perspectiveThu, 16 Aug 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingethicssoftware-developmentcrafthttps://thatsabug.com/blog/testing_ember_application_first_steps/https://thatsabug.com/blog/testing_ember_application_first_steps/Ember.js provides great tools for testing your frontend, enable us to write faster, deeper, and more reliable checks than end-to-end tools, as Selenium. Let's test the UI, not through the UI.Wed, 08 Aug 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingfrontendember.jsseleniumhttps://thatsabug.com/blog/start_reading_an_automation_book/https://thatsabug.com/blog/start_reading_an_automation_book/Day 2 of 30 of Automation in Testing - Start Reading an Automation BookThu, 12 Jul 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingautomationreadingbook30-dayshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/industrial_automation_versus_test_automation/https://thatsabug.com/blog/industrial_automation_versus_test_automation/Day 1 of 30 of Automation - DefinitionsSun, 08 Jul 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingautomationdefinition30-dayshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/days3to5/https://thatsabug.com/blog/days3to5/The accumulation of Days 3 to 5 of the 30 Days of Automation in Testing Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingautomationreadingbook30-dayshttps://thatsabug.com/blog/the-heuristic_testing_strategy_model_mindmap_/https://thatsabug.com/blog/the-heuristic_testing_strategy_model_mindmap_/James Bach's HTSM in Mindmap formatMon, 18 Jun 2018 23:15:00 GMTblogtestingexploratorystrategyquality