This was Julien's hackday project. This year, Caplin Hack Day's theme was titled 'Into the Unknown'. Basically, we were allowed to do anything as long as it was something new.So I did what everyone ...Read More
Hackday – Team Firefly
Permissioning and Entitlement is one of the most critical functions of any financial trading system. Ensuring that your clients are entitled to perform their required actions and denied from all other actions is important not only for security and convenience, but ...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, ...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
JAX London
I attended this years JAX London conference from the 13th to the 14th October in the Business Design Centre, Islington, which is a nice building within the surrounding area of buzzing Angel. JAX London is a 2 day conference ...Read More
Incremental UX
The Agile approach has in many organisations become the expected way of working. There have been many articles and books around the challenges of designing in an agile environment. When building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) there are ...Read More