Developer. Gamer. Tester
Releasing Your App to the Store in Style Part 1 If you’ve read my story, you’ll know that I’ve been inspired to stop dreaming about my ideas and start doing something about them. Earlier this year, I incorporated the app development company Junction 5 Studios to house all of my efforts. This would also be…
Why Testing Could Be the Most Important Stage When Developing After working as both a developer and a tester, I have a unique insight the benefits and challenges of both roles. Testing may be something that those outside of development roles would assume is the sole responsibility of the person employed to be a tester.…
Adding Reports and Screenshots to Your Protractor Tests If you fancy sticking it out with Protractor (unlike I did), I highly suggest you add jasmine 2 html reporter to your test projects. The Jasmine part Adding Jasmine will give you a little report in the command window listing all tests that have been run, including…
How does Protractor compare to Selenium WebDriver? My experience so far in development roles has been with the .NET stack so when I was asked to pick a tool to implement UI automation, I had using Selenium and C# in mind. However, due to the technology of the systems I was automating, I decided to…
What Do We Mean By Testing? Testing is an area of development. A product or service is measured against a number of criteria at different stages of the development cycle. This is measured against the original spec, goal or intended use. Testing can be carried out manually by individuals or automated by computer systems. The…
I decided to do a “quick catch up” post to sum up what I’ve been up to was well overdue. A lot has been going on under the hood since the last time I posted (I can’t believe how long it’s been!). Pause on posting I’ve been concerned about the amount I was posting on…
9 Steps To Approach A Development Task My most recent guest post on Simple Programmer.com was the process that I would go to when tackling a development task. I got the advice from a previous manager and thought it would be good to share with a wide audience. So another blog post for the Simple…
10 Tips To Start Off Well In A Junior Dev Role This next post for SimpleProgrammer.com was inspired by a list of things that I thought were essential when beginning a junior developer role in any industry. Read my insights and tips for those new to development here – 10 Tips To Start Off Well…
The Difference Between Games and Software Testing During October I decided to try my hand at guest posting. I’ve been following the John Sonmez on the Simple Programmer podcast, YouTube videos and blog for a year or two now. The blog focuses on a wide array of topics focused on software development. Since my content idea…
Xamarin Dev Day London October 2016 The Xamarin Dev Day was held at Microsoft’s building near Paddington. It was a modern building, very bright and filled with light. What Was Covered on this Xamarin Dev Day Short presentations were made to start the day off. The presentations given were: Intro to Xamarin Cross platform…