Crafts as a positive outlet

One of the things that has been a struggle for me over the past several years when I started fieldwork and real work was being ab…

Sustenance and Desire and HEAT for Cook the Books

The New Year brings another turn at hosting the bimonthly Cook the Books foodie book club, and for my book pick I turned to &quo…

Adriano, the Arduino Robot | Step 3 (L293D Controlled)

[Everything in this robot is built from scratch, no kits used (except for the chassis).] Click here to view the previous steps in…

Adriano, the Arduino 2WD Robot | Step 2 (Remote Controlled)

[Everything in this robot is built from scratch, no kits used (except for the chassis).] I finally found the time to add remote c…

How to test dynamic reports - part 2

There is more to say about testing dynamic reports. In part 1 , the focus was on describing how manual testing is done. But somet…

A New Beginning - 2015

Another year gone by! Another leaf turned over.....this one was supposed to be special owing to the fact that it was the first ye…

One month with my Wattbike

So one month ago. My Wattbike arrived. In that month I have completed around 17 hours of training on it. Here is the lowdown of …

How to test dynamic reports

Reports testing is something that I did rarely in my career. I validated simple reports here and there but the work was always sh…

How to build your test automation framework

Foundation Framework A Foundation Framework is built prior to any application that are built on top of it.  The idea is that you …

Use simple and easy to understand regular expressions in your code

I used regular expressions a few times in my test automation code and each time they were not easy to understand by other people.…

Store your test automation code in a source control system (Subversive)

One thing that you should use as soon as your test automation work gets serious is a source control system for your code. You can…