Benjamin Bischoff on test automation and software craftsmanship

I am a test automation engineer at trivago N.V. (ex Senior Automation Engineer at Ubisoft Düsseldorf) writing and talking about software development and testing.

Check out my book "Writing API Tests with Karate"!

In magic, one of the greatest challenges is framing. That means finding a context for your effect. In this article of the "Magic principles in test automation" series, I will talk about this.

This article will show how to set Github actions parameters to a value that is based on another parameter's value. This is a very flexible approach for inputs with specific options.

I wrote an article for the Ministry of Testing community about common software design patterns and methodologies that can be helpful when dealing with UI automation.

Read the full article on the Ministry of Testing website!

I wrote five tips for Selenium that will be shared this week by trivago tech via Twitter and Substack.

Check them out on the trivago substack page!

In my recent BrowserStack webinar "Finding the balance - trivago's end-to-end test strategy", I talked about the introduction of a separated test automation team at trivago. In this post, I will explain how we overcame the challenges that this setup brought with it.

This is the recording of my webinar "Finding the balance - trivago's end-to-end test strategy" in cooperation with BrowserStack from November 10th 2020 where I take you through the rationale behind our current strategy that enables us to release multiple times a day.