The Protean Tester

jq for testers

As test automation engineers we often touch many different tools, protocols, data, and systems. Whatever we need to get the job…

Catching java.io.IOException: Broken pipe with the help of toxiproxy

Evolution of Test Automation for a Monolith

The monolith. Dreaded for its sluggishness, tangledness and license costs. Mongering…

Journalbeat - Error while reading event: failed to get realtime timestamp: 99

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…

How my mistake made the build 20 minutes slower

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…

Show who is pair programming on tasks in your Azure DevOps boards

Use Git and Markdown to Store Your Team’s Documentation and Decisions

Do you sometimes feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day? Reliving the same day over and over again? I sure feel like that in some discussions with my team: revisiting the same discussion multiple times, because…