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Are you a testing dragon?

Posted on October 1, 2018October 1, 2018 by Neil Syrett

This week I attended a “Strength-Scope” team-building workshop. “Great another team-building day, just what I need.” I’ll admit that I did start out a little sceptical, but I summoned up as much enthusiasm as I could, in

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GDPR

Life after GDPR: Data protection for software testers

Posted on September 2, 2018October 1, 2018 by Neil Syrett

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may seem like a thing of the past. Despite the original proposals being released in January 2012, there was still the much-anticipated mad panic earlier this year. As the implementation date

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#MakeTestingGreatAgain

Lessons learned in building Communities of Practice

Posted on August 13, 2018August 30, 2018 by Neil Syrett

Three years ago I joined a company that was re-platforming its tech stack and transforming from waterfall to agile. With this, the software development and testing teams were being divided up into two pizza size, cross-functional teams.

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Migrating from SpecFlow to BDDfy

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

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Tests passed

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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It's coming home

World Cup RiskStorming #itscominghome

Posted on July 5, 2018May 19, 2021 by Neil Syrett

Over the past year or so, I’ve been actively using my deck of TestSphere cards, mainly as a way of introducing people to the mindset of testing. Recently, my good colleague Stu Crocker introduced me to RiskStorming

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