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Congratulations and thank you!

16/6/2021

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It is great to hear from people that have found this site helpful. At the end of the day, my goal with injinia is to help whomever and wherever I can.

Over the last year and a bit there have been a lot of changes not only in our work environments but also our kids schooling and after school activities. I know my family has had to adapt, learn, and change a lot! My Work hasn't changed too much, as I've been working remote for a while, but I have been able to use the knowledge and experience to help other teams and groups with their remote transition.

I've heard from a number of groups over the past little while that finding resources for kids to add to their learning and continue being engaged is a bit of a challenge. While we have done some home and online schooling with our own kids, the changes that have happened over the last year have made it hard for my kids to participate in a lot of the group activities and after school events that they were part of. So it has been great to hear from different groups to find out how they have been able to move their groups from in person to virtual and how they are continuing to provide community and instruction to kids and keep them engaged.

One group, the Brownie Scouts' of Kellytown, has been working on their "Coding Basics" badges at home, congratulations! This is a great example of how leaders like Girl Scout Troop leader Andrea have been able to adapt and continue with learning and engaging even though there are changes in everything! Maybe there should be some 'Adapting to Change' badges given out! Her Brownie Scouts wanted to share some resources and a great overview of popular programming languages that they found helpful in their at work at home. Have a look at the links page to see their recommendations. As Andrea pointed out, learning to code offers so many developmental and career benefits, it is great to see kids learning and passing on what they have learned to others.

Thanks for that recommendation, this will be a great help for others as well. Keep up the great work Andrea the Kellytown Brownie Scout troop!

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Toolset roundup

19/3/2020

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What tools/programs do I use in day-to-day dev and testing?

With the recent surge in remote work, I've been in contact with a lot of testers and developers over the last couple of weeks, and have ended up sending out a list of things I use a few times. Over the years of testing many different things, working with different companies with different budget models, and doing personal projects, I've come up with a set of tools that works for me for almost all of the situations I find myself in.

One thing to note, I do like free tools, but I also like to support the developers of tools that I regularly rely on, so if I list a free tool here, I have probably bought the developer a coffee or two, paid for a support license, or made some sort of donation to them. I am not affiliated with or getting referrals or kick-backs from any of these tools.

software and hardware tools

software
  • VSCodium
  • espanso
  • ​Greenshot
  • Insomnia
  • OBS Studio
  • Mouse without borders
  • PowerToys
  • Wally
  • slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • WhatsApp
  • Signal
  • ​Foxit
  • 7-Zip
  • WinMerge
  • GnuWin
hardware
  • logitech G602
  • ZSA Moonlander Mark 1
  • logitech c922
  • Plantronics Blackwire 725

I'll be posting shortly about how I setup and use each of these

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Kid's coding!

6/3/2020

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It is always great to hear about kids learning new things and discovering new skills. I just received a note about a kid learning interested in programming, and would like to give him a shout out, Hi Dylan!

​When I was growing up I got the chance to learn some coding with my older brother. We had a Commodore VIC-20 and were able to program in the BASIC programming language. It was tedious, not documented well, and was very unfriendly to learn. Now days there are a lot of languages geared for kids learning to program. It is a great skill to have, and the nature of programming can be applied to many different life areas and problems.

Dylan wanted to share a link to some more information about programming that is specifically geared for kids.  One of those links is to the scratch language, it is a great system, and my kids have all had a go at it and had a lot of fun. Thanks Dylan! Thanks also to Barbara and the whole class at SLCCN! 
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Happy Friday

21/10/2016

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Happy Friday!

If anyone is in Calgary the first discussion in our Automation Series is coming up and we'd love to see you there.
Join the SQDG at 12:00PM on Thursday, October 27th, to learn more about automation and to share your automation experiences with us as well!
 
The meeting will be held at Bow Valley square, our new home for the season (Thanks Oildex!), at noon on October 27th.
 
What
SQDG discussion around automation, the first discussion in the series.
 
Where
205 5 Ave SW, Calgary
3rd floor, Mezzanine Level, in the Angus room
 
When
Thursday October 27th at 12 noon
 
Register
https://sqdg.typeform.com/to/IZzZ71
 
If you would like to join in with ongoing discussions within the group, you can join us on slack or LinkedIn
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1884463
Slack: https://sqdg.slack.com (register for the sqdg channel https://sqdg.typeform.com/to/nFCfk4)
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SQDG

8/9/2016

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The Calgary Software Quality Discussion group will be returning from the summer break on September 29th.

We will be meeting on the last Thursday each month during the noon hour, the location for the meeting this month is at Oildex (thanks!) 205 Fifth Ave SW, Suite 400.

Please come out and help shape this year.

We will be discussing options for format, possible speakers, topics, schedule and locations.

If you would like to speak, know someone who would like to speak, or if there is someone you would like to hear speak, let me know.

If you have topics you would like addressed, topics avoided, or non-qa related topics to discuss, bring a list!

Please forward this message on to anyone you think may be interested, even if they have nto wanted to be a part of the group in the past; this is a chance to get the group working for the QA community.
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Planning, tracking, working, and communicating for Free!

20/8/2016

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When I am working on a project there are a few things that I like to do to ensure that I can make the most of my time and budget. There are a number of things involved in a project that traditionally end up costing money to do. I like things that work well, minimize the time needed to manage, setup, administer, learn, integrate, and when I find something that can do that AND the cost is low or free it makes me very happy!

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Getting started with ruby web automation - Part 4

20/8/2016

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Paging Dr. Object
Organizing your tests and the objects that describe elements within the application your are testing is one of the ways to help DRY up your tests and to reduce the amount of change needed when the application your are testing changes. You can do this in a couple of ways, and, depending on the driver you are using, there are some libraries that can help you. One way to do this is with the page object pattern.

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Cucumber or rspec... or something else?

14/7/2016

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Just to be clear, cucumber is not a testing tool, it is a collaboration and analysis tool. Rspec is a specification runner. With that out of the way, here is how I choose what format to write my "tests" in.

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Send cucumber stats/info to slack?

13/7/2016

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Why not?

Adding the module


Since this is support code, put this in the support folder.

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Getting started with ruby web automation - Part 3

23/6/2016

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Starting a project
There are a number of things I setup by default, folder structure, helper files, snippets, etc. I do this a lot, so have a tool that automates some of this. I've posted it on Bitbucket but it is very much a work in progress.

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    Hi, my name is Clancey and I am a quality advocate, automator, and toolsmith.

    I help companies with quality. To do this I end up automating a lot of things, functional testing being one of them.

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