QAFFL is nothing to do with Harry Potter, despite the name and possible Quidditch connection. In fact, it is a one day conference focusing on QA in Finance: a series of talks ...Read More
Category: QA
AppiumConf 2018
On 6th April 2018 the first AppiumConf was held. This was the first conference specifically about Appium, the mobile testing tool based on Selenium. Fittingly, the keynote was from two founders of the Appium project. They took us through the brief history of Appium, and ...Read More
Debugging mocked Kotlin objects
The Caplin Integration Team has recently started creating our latest set of adapters used for internal testing and demos. For this version of our mock adapters we opted to go with Kotlin as our primary language. This has ...Read More
Screenplay Pattern – a SOLID alternative pattern to Page Objects
This blog is based on the talk presented by Antony Marcano on Screenplay pattern, in Selenium conference 2016. I have also looked into some tutorials online (listed at the end), which also contributes to some contents below and my better ...Read More
SelConf 2016: Big Data Makes the Flake Go Away
On November15-16th, several members of Caplin’s QA team attended the Selenium Conference, an annual conference about Selenium Testing tool and best practices. As someone who is relatively new to Selenium but has been Dev-ing for about 3 ...Read More
Selenium Conference 2016 – Selenium’s flawed vision
"org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (411, 675). Other element would receive the click: ..." The above-mentioned error message is well known by most QA and developers, who work with Selenium. Sometimes it makes perfect sense, but ...Read More
Selenium Conference 2016 – Appium Workshop
This week I went to the “Mobile Automation With Appium” workshop hosted at this year’s Selenium Conference in London. For our mobile offerings, we here at Caplin are able to ...Read More
Microsoft Edge Automation
In this blogpost I will try to go through the main issues that I faced trying to automate Microsoft Edge testing. ...Read More
Jenkins Output Navigator – Hackday Project
The theme for the hackday VII was "Simplify and Scale".My colleague Daniel Owen and I decided to produce something to simplify our lives as QAs at Caplin. Andy Berry was also on hand and kind enough to ...Read More
Different Tiers of Performance Test
Recently, I was involved in the performance testing of several different projects at Caplin and for our customers. What I have noticed is that when we do functional testing we have different tiers of functional tests like Unit test level, Acceptance ...Read More