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Building a Test Automation Library to Create and Manipulate Test Data
Building a Test Automation Library to Create and Manipulate Test Data
The past 4 years I’ve worked on a test automation library that is primarily used for end-to-end test automation, with some additional uses…
Joost van Wollingen
May 30
jq for testers
jq for testers
As test automation engineers we often touch many different tools, protocols, data, and systems. Whatever we need to get the job done…
Joost van Wollingen
Jan 24
Catching java.io.IOException: Broken pipe with the help of toxiproxy
Catching java.io.IOException: Broken pipe with the help of toxiproxy
Recently I’ve moved into a new team, which is responsible for the front- and backend of a backoffice application. The alerting for our…
Joost van Wollingen
Jan 21
Evolution of Test Automation for a Monolith
Evolution of Test Automation for a Monolith
The monolith. Dreaded for its sluggishness, tangledness and license costs. Mongering fear in the hearts of developers, who tame it through…
Joost van Wollingen
Jan 2
Journalbeat - Error while reading event: failed to get realtime timestamp: 99
Journalbeat - Error while reading event: failed to get realtime timestamp: 99
Recently I was setting up an instance of Journalbeat to publish journald logging to our ELK stack. I wanted to publish only the logs for a…
Joost van Wollingen
Apr 3, 2020
Copy text from your VSCode terminal by selecting it
If you are used to working on a terminal a lot you’ve probably come to love the feature to copy the text you select to your clipboard…
Joost van Wollingen
Feb 5, 2020
How my mistake made the build 20 minutes slower
How my mistake made the build 20 minutes slower
In order to deploy the same version of your code on all environments, it is important to create immutable artifacts of your application…
Joost van Wollingen
Feb 5, 2020
Downloading artifacts from Azure DevOps Universal Package feed fails with az: error: unrecognized…
Downloading artifacts from Azure DevOps Universal Package feed fails with az: error: unrecognized…
Using some of the newer features of Azure DevOps might mean that you have to upgrade your toolchain. In my particular case I was trying to…
Joost van Wollingen
Dec 18, 2019
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