I am Benjamin Bischoff, a test automation engineer at trivago N.V. in Düsseldorf, Germany, writing and talking about software development, clean code principles and testing.
After many years of watching teams succeed and fail with technology choices, I've learned something interesting: the features rarely determine success.
In today’s fast-evolving tech world, the pull towards new tools and technologies is strong. Sometimes, it can be hard to decide what to get involved with and which ones to leave behind.
Let's explore this a bit further!
There are now hundreds of conferences around the world that are always on the lookout for new presentations. In this article, I summarise what I have learned as a regular speaker.
This is a pair-blog article with Lena Pejgan Wiberg. Her idea is that two people write a post about an agreed topic at the same time and promote each other's article. In this article, it is about "rubberducking".
Lena's blog post can be found here on her blog.
Sometimes, (test) automation professionals are approached with a completely new task for automation. In this article, I try to give you a guideline and some questions to ask when this happens.
This article explains the steps to set up RetroPie, a software that bundles a lot of retro console emulators under one user interface. This allows you to make the ultimate retro gaming console for your TV.