Install Oracle instant client and sqlplus using Homebrew

After upgrading to El Capitan I was no longer able to run sqlplus from the command line. Apparently the upgrade moved some stuff to a Migration directory.

$ locate sqlplus…

Distributing private tools through homebrew

A lot of useful, handy tools are being produced by some of my colleagues, but distributing them to the rest of the company can be a hassle. As a user I don’t want to be bothered with finding the right page on Confluence, extracting a zip archive, moving…

Copy text from your VSCode terminal by selecting it

If you are used to working on a terminal a lot you’ve probably come to love the feature to copy the text you select to your clipboard. Recently I’ve started using VSCode more and more and often ran into the issue that my muscle memory…

Docker for testers — selenium & nginx containers with Maven

[imported from my old blog — Jul 01, 2016]

In this post I’d like to explore the possibilities Docker can bring to your testing.

How my mistake made the build 20 minutes slower

The best resources on the web for interviewing testers

I remember the first time I was asked to sit in on an interview. I took 2+ hours to prepare, reading the candidates cv over and over, looking for leads to ask questions about. I wrote down every question I wanted to ask. As the…

Testing: How Do You Know Something Is A Bug? — Using Mental Models and Oracles in Testing

Downloading artifacts from Azure DevOps Universal Package feed fails with az: error: unrecognized arguments: — project

Using some of the newer features of Azure DevOps might mean that you have to upgrade your toolchain. In my particular case I was…

Docker for testers — Getting started

Where to start if you are new to Docker?

The Docker ecosystem is evolving rapidly and as a newcomer it can be a daunting task to figure out where to start. I’ve attempted to gather some of the resources that have been useful to me in this…