Category: Checking

How to: Run Playwright .NET tests in Azure DevOps pipelines

Posted on June 18, 2021February 19, 2022 by Neil Syrett

Quick guide to running Playwright .NET tests in your Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

The do’s and don’ts of integration testing

Posted on May 10, 2021May 29, 2021 by Neil Syrett

Get the biggest bang for your buck with integration tests that are fast, reliable and easy to maintain.

Dependency Injection – Vaccinate your tests from messy code

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Neil Syrett

Fed up with messy test code that’s difficult to maintain and extend? Read on to learn how to supercharge your automated test by implementing IoC using .NET Dependency Injection

The scourge of the test context

Posted on January 26, 2019March 25, 2021 by Neil Syrett

I spend a fair amount of time reviewing automation code and frameworks and recently I’ve come to the conclusion that the testing community has a problem. We have an unhealthy obsession with test contexts! I’m not fundamentally opposed

How to: Migrate from SpecFlow to BDDfy

Posted on July 19, 2018October 16, 2018 by Neil Syrett

I’ve been using SpecFlow for many years and it has definitely been a trusty ally, but recently I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with it. Some regular frustrations include: no IntelliSense when writing scenarios “ambiguous step definitions” errors

Failing Selenium tests – SOLVED!

Posted on July 15, 2018October 4, 2018 by Neil Syrett

Just under a year ago the team and I made the bold decision to delete our existing suite of automated browser test. The suite was your traditional web test framework – SpecFlow, Selenium WebDriver, Page Object Model.

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