The curious case of the disappearing PDF text
A case of disappearing text in an auto-generated PDF document led me to dig deeper and learn more about ReportLab: a PDF generation library. Here’s the stor...
Testing
Agile Testing Days 2021
This is the first in-person conference for me in almost two years. Crazy times! Below are my notes from the talks that I attended at the Agile Testing Days...
Working around the focus-click problem in Selenium
Sometimes Selenium can lose browser focus when running tests, which can cause timeout errors when testing click events in a web application. Here I discuss ...
Developing an OpenLayers app from scratch in ES6 using Mocha, Webpack and Karma: Arctic sea-ice data visualisation
… where we finally visualise actual sea-ice concentration data and migrate our tests to karma.
Developing an OpenLayers app from scratch in ES6 using Mocha, Webpack and Karma: Projections
… where we investigate projections and view our map from an Arctic perspective.
Developing an OpenLayers app from scratch in ES6 using Mocha, Webpack and Karma: Mocha tests
… where we start testing our application.
Developing an OpenLayers app from scratch in ES6 using Mocha, Webpack and Karma: Initial app
… where we create a simple OpenLayers map and modularise our code for later use.
Developing an OpenLayers app from scratch in ES6 using Mocha, Webpack and Karma
It looks a bit like I’m trying some kind of SEO trick with this title. Believe me, I’m not! It’s just amazing how many technologies were necessary to get in...
Test suite profiling
Recently at $work I found that our test suite was taking longer and longer to run and had begun to slow down development. A long-running test suite smells of...