Archive

So far I've written 49 posts, but a lot more to come!

• Automation 11
• Community 5
• Ux 3
• Marketing 1
• Development 1
• Manual testing 1
• Events 2
• Collaboration 1
• Retro 6
• Testing 10
• Accessibility 5
• Continous learning 1
• Ai 1
• Remote working 1

Automation

• End-to-end testing a Chrome extension using PuppeteerJanuary 06, 2023
• Exploring Heardle - achieving a perfect scoreJune 22, 2022
• Automating Heardle - The art of keeping things simpleJune 18, 2022
• Automating visual checking of alt tags, labels, broken links and duplicate idsFebruary 22, 2020
• Automate DB (Database) testing with Pester and dbatoolsMay 26, 2018
• WeAreDevelopers - Automating visual regression testing Q&A from Sli.doMay 22, 2018
• Qa- selectors, what are they and why should you care?April 21, 2018
• Automating visual regression testingDecember 04, 2017
• What do testers need to know these days?April 02, 2017
• Browser automation using Protractor on non AngularJs pagesMarch 16, 2017
• Browser automation using Selenium WebDriver and C#April 25, 2014

Community

• Talking the world with 80 testersApril 17, 2020
• Around the world with 80 software testersFebruary 15, 2020
• Becoming a CodeClub volunteerNovember 15, 2016
• Creating a new Agile Development & Software Craftsmanship conference - SwanseaCon 2015November 30, 2014
• Creating a new meetup - Swansea Software Development CommunityMay 31, 2014

Ux

• Easily create your own Stencils for prototyping using Pencil and Rich TextDecember 28, 2023
• Custom Stencils for prototyping a modern looking Mobile App within PencilNovember 03, 2016
• Custom GOV.UK Stencils for prototyping a Government Digital Service using PencilNovember 20, 2014

Marketing

• Social media marketing on a £0 budgetJanuary 27, 2016

Development

• It's never to late to start a career in software developmentNovember 13, 2016

Manual testing

• Making test script creation, test and bug reports easierAugust 09, 2017

Events

• My first talk at a conferenceSeptember 17, 2017
• Speaking at & attending DDD East AngliaSeptember 16, 2017

Collaboration

• Identifying opportunities to collaborate - Daily Stand-upNovember 14, 2017

Retro

• A look back at 2021January 04, 2022
• A look back at 2020February 28, 2021
• Presenting a conference talk remotelyJune 15, 2020
• A look back at 2019December 31, 2019
• A look back at 2018December 31, 2018
• A look back at 2017December 16, 2017

Testing

• Exploring Heardle - Listening to missed or upcoming daysJune 20, 2022
• Testing APIs with Postman and OWASP ZAP proxyOctober 15, 2021
• Helpful distractionsApril 03, 2020
• Chrome DevTools: Identifying elements which are not displayed as expectedApril 18, 2019
• Chrome DevTools: Required field validationMarch 30, 2019
• Visual testing - digging deeperNovember 25, 2018
• Postman generating random POST dataOctober 29, 2018
• DevTools: Testers playgroundSeptember 25, 2018
• Thinking outside the testing boxAugust 05, 2018
• An introduction to Postman API testingMarch 01, 2018

Accessibility

• Generating HTML reports from Axe .JSON outputOctober 25, 2022
• Automating testing for accessibilityJanuary 02, 2020
• Chrome DevTools: Identifying form inputs with no labelsApril 03, 2019
• Chrome DevTools: No StylesApril 01, 2019
• Automating page tabability (is that a word?) with visual testingNovember 06, 2018

Continous learning

• You can do it!March 16, 2020

Ai

• Using ChatGPT to assist testingJanuary 07, 2023

Remote working

• Stop being frAgile - improving communication and collaboration as part of a remote teamJanuary 02, 2024