Category: Software Engineering

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 quality of tests across the development team. In the…

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 quality of tests across the development team. In my…

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 quality of tests across the development team. Thankfully, lightweight…

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, this blog post will help remove a little of the stress. Oftentimes,…

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 Series X was in…

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 code to send an…

Since the new Xbox Series X launch last year, it has been almost impossible to get your hands on one. It is continually out of stock at all the major retailers. To check if it is in stock, we typically visit a retailer’s website. But we don’t want to go and check every day or,…

I am a big fan of eggs. My lunch probably includes two to three eggs almost every day – usually in omelet form, but sometimes in an egg sandwich. I have done many different egg experiments (or eggsperiments, as I like to call them) over the last year. Most of my eggsperiments have tended toward…