tswiftma articles - 14 total
Trigger an automation pipeline after a Dev pipeline runs
In the perfect world you'd have multiple development environments, Dev/QA/Stage/Prod, especially if...
Getting an Azure OAuth2 token with a Service Principal
Trying to call the Azure REST APIs requires an OAuth2 token. This seems simple right? Ha ha...
Write Pipeline Failures to a Teams Channel
It can be super useful to write Azure DevOps pipeline failure events to a Teams Channel. It’s a easy...
Software Engineering is a Total Trip
Software engineering can be really annoying at times but it is also hilarious and super...
Generate a JSON list for a request body payload in C# using Collection Initializers
I recently had to write a test for a new JSON REST POST API. The request body of the POST contained a...
WebdriverIO Automation Protocol State of Confusion
I'm still somewhat of a WebdriverIO noob and I learned an important lesson this week. WebdriverIO...
WebdriverIO DevTools Edge driver options
I recently needed to add Microsoft Edge browser coverage to my Webdriver.IO tests. But when I added...
Store your automation credentials in Azure KeyVault
Note: updated on 4/30/24 with a more complete solution There's a common problem storing login...
Help I need to choose a UI Automation tool!
Our team has the opportunity to choose a new UI Automation tool for a new web front end. We're consid...
Using cmd switches with pytest to share data between tests
I'm kind of new to using Python Selenium with pytest and I needed to pass in come custom cmd line opt...
Why I'm switching from C# to Python with Selenium
I was recently tasked with automating our product's new login wrapper. This involved hitting the serv...
Use a host header value for testing services on Kubernetes
What is a Host Header? Basically it's an address that the web server (or ingress service) will send a...
Initialize asynchronous data in XUnit Collections for sharing data between tests
By its design XUnit doesn't like to share data between tests like NUnit. XUnit has created Collection...
Switching from HttpClientHandler to SocketsHttpHandler
While going through a recent code review for my Rest API test automation it was suggested that I swit...