Lazery Reflections

This is a small release to default to using JMeter 2.6.2.

This is a small release to fix a couple of outstanding defects

This is a minor release to use the newly released JMeter 5.5 by default

I have a Pi-Hole set up on my local network to try and reduce the number of ads that are constantly thrown at me, as well as allowing me to have some local DNS overrides (it can be really useful...

You must have been living in a hole if you haven’t heard of the recent Log4J vulnerabilities which have caused a flurry of releases of various software packages. Unfortunately JMeter was also affected and the JMeter team has been hard...

This is a minor release that performed a bit of code cleanup and added a small new feature.

To start off let me clarify that when I talk about an automated test in the title, I mean an automated check. I’m aware of the difference, but most people I interact with on a daily basis still talk about...

I was at the London Tester Gathering last night where the mystery speaker was Michael Bolton.During his talk he said something that caused me to pause:

Recently I’ve spent a fair bit of time working with Angular JS applications and as great as Angular is, it can be a pain when it comes to automating it.

It has been a while since the last release and there are quite a few fixes and improvements.

The initial stable release of the driver-binary-downloader-maven-plugin has been released. This brings in the following changes:

Waiting can be hard, so here are a couple of useful tricks to use with jQuery:

Version 1.8.1 of the JMeter Maven plugin has been released.

I’m a bit late adding this here (I’ve been distracted updating the wiki for the plugin and doing a bit of running around closing off issues) but thought it would be a good idea to start posting stuff about the...

This is a little trick that some may find useful.

The testing world seems to have entered a state of flux in the last couple of years where “Automated Testing” is the new nirvana, I suspect this in part due to more and more companies following Google’s lead and starting...

I thought long and hard before posting this entry because while it works, it’s not the real solution (Which is adding the code to enable the Actions classes into Safari driver, something I’m looking at right now to see if...

I’m a regular Maven user and one thing that has annoyed me for a while with Selenium is the standalone server binaries.  Not because I think the concept is a bad thing, but because it adds a dependency that has...

In this blog post I will try and make you think why you are performing automated file download tests, and I will provide some Java code that will enable you to perform file downloads in a cross platform way without...