When writing tests for some new functionality, our goal should be to write the minimum number of tests with the highest likelihood of finding defects. To do this, we need a repeatable, consistent approach to defining our tests that will result in a similar outcome and...
Is butter harder? This has been the focus of many Canadians lately, as their butter isn’t spreading across bread or club crackers (which I personally love) as they expect. But, what I don’t love is crackers breaking as I spread butter on them. Harder...
Your push notification certificate has expired for APNs (Apple Push Notification service). What are you going to do? Luckily for you, this is a common problem. I think, like many things we don’t do very often, this process can be somewhat stressful. Hopefully,...
Xbox Series Xs are still hard to come by, so I thought, “Why not just write an application that tells me when an Xbox is in stock at Target?” That doesn’t sound too hard. In part 1, we created an application that would check Target’s website to see if an Xbox...
In part one of this series, we discussed building a small app that checks whether Target has any Xbox Series Xs in stock. Our plan is to do this using Puppeteer and automating the usage of Chrome to open the appropriate web page. In part 2, we will extend the previous...
For a recent project I was working on, we needed to set up a new FTP server. This server would receive files via FTP, and then these files would be moved to a temporary machine for further processing. This process needed to be automated and be executed reliably, and...
