OK gang, I want to be a lean, mean, skating MACHINE! As such I have decided to take on the Roller Derby Workout Challenge. This starts on 9th January for 8 weeks and involves me giving up booze. For those of you who know me, two months off wine, rum and gin will be a… Read More Roller Derby Workout Challenge
Running automated UI tests using Selenium IDE: Creating the tests Install the Java Runtime Environment Install the selenium server (unzip selenium rc to your c:\ drive) Install Firefox Install the firefox selenium IDE plugin Run the IDE and specify the base url Create every test to open the base url by running the command “open” with value ”/” Now… Read More How to run automated UI tests using Selenium
Intro Here are the notes and reading list I took away from Kevin’s talk last night. Excuse that they were written on my iPhone! Kevin was excellent. He has such a rich wealth of knowledge and experience, we spent most of the evening grilling him about various tools and techniques, asking for advice on problems… Read More GeekUp Nottingham
How many times have you wanted to write a test which uses a real file (xml, xslx, xls, txt etc.) and got stumped as to how to include it in your project, and in source control AND then pop it in your c:\ temp to reference a filepath. You generally want to do this as… Read More Saving resource files to disk for testing in .NET
At last night’s 3rd GeekUp Nottingham we had @prettierpixels come all the way from Preston to deliver a fascinating talk: “Thrifty Testing: Usability on a budget”. We learned the quickest, cheapest and easiest way to get usability feedback on your website or app was to observe people (friends, family, strangers at starbucks) having a first… Read More GeekUp Nottingham October: Thrifty Testing
In our hudson setup we have several jobs per project. For example we’ll have: build – compiles and runs tests. integration – runs integration tests. triggered by build’s success devstage – ftp’s our project to the development test environment. triggered by the build’s success. release to live boxes. This is a manual trigger. Each of these jobs… Read More Hudson – pass the %build_number%
Last night I attended my first Girl Geek Dinner in Nottingham at Jam Café organised by @kateblatherwick. It was awesome!!!!! The venue and the staff were fabulous. The food was delectable and plentiful; I was stuffed! Fed and wined for £5 (thanks to our sponsors @esendex). After an introduction from Geoff, our marketing director at… Read More Nottingham Girl Geek Dinner
I’ve just booked a lovely holiday to northern Italy to stay with my friends. It’s about an hour or so away from Milan and in a village just outside of Piacenza. Perfect place to go if you want to experience authentic Italy. http://www.trecorone.it/trecorone/Welcome.html This will be my third visit and I can’t wait. If you… Read More A holiday to Italy
This month has got a bit of an interactive AGILE theme to it. We’re very happy to welcome @ashleymoran from Sheffield who’ll be hosting a session on Refactoring Ruby. Then I’ll be taking you all through a demo of TDD in .NET. These are both interactive sessions, Ashley will be pairing with members of the… Read More GeekUp Nottingham – September
#girl #geek #ggd #nottingham #girlgeekdinners #bdd #tdd #rollercoasters #immunology… Read More Nottingham Girl Geek Dinners
Gemma Cameron 