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Filip Hric

Test like a developer, develop like a tester

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Filip Hric

27th November 2024

TEST LIKE A DEVELOPER, DEVELOP LIKE A TESTER

Hey Reader,
I spent last week at Agile Testing Days conference in Germany. I got to meet some of the people I’ve only been able to interact with online and I have to say I had a great time!

At the conference, I presented my talk titled "Test like a developer, develop like a tester" that is all about connecting these two worlds that sometimes feel so far apart. It was very positively received and the wonderful Lisi Hocke even created this amazing sketch note of it.

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Test like a developer, develop like a tester

A written version of my talk, all about how testers and developers can work better together.

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Meetup in Bratislava

If you are near Bratislava, come join the meetup tomorrow. We‘ll have snacks, talks and a great panel discussion. Meetup will be in slovak language.

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Mock service workers

I’ve been recently playing with Mock service worker (MSW) and used it to mock API calls with my own responses. It’s a really nifty tool that can help simulate different frontend situations by passing a mock response from API instead of a real one.

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Test automation tip

In Cypress, you can actually format your log messages using some of the markdown syntax. This can help you annotate or highlight important steps in your tests.

 1  cy.log('normal')
 2  cy.log('**bold**')
 3  cy.log('_italic_')
 4  cy.log('[blue](<http://example.com>)')

Meme of the week

When a bug fix gets deprioritized

That’s it for this week, see you next time! 👋

Filip Hric

Teaching testers about development, and developers about testing

filip@filiphric.sk, Senec, Slovakia 90301
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