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You have to learn how to walk before you can run -- this is one of the rules I follow when I'm trying to learn something new. Although I was able to do Selenium Ruby + Capybara + Cucumber setup on my previous post about starting to learn Ruby and automation using it, I felt like I need to go back because I could have missed an important basic knowledge. I completed the Ruby in 20 minutes exercises to get a feel of basic Ruby syntax and also the Chapter 1 of The Ruby Programming Language by O'Reilly , I started creating my first test in Selenium Ruby. -- Creating my first test Reference/s: Ruby in 20 minutes: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/ Selenium WebDriver Documentation ("Introducing the Selenium-WebDriver API by Example" section): https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp If "Hello World" is the first thing that most programming language tutorials teaches you, for Selenium it's probably doing a Google s...

This post will tell you what I think about testing and test automation in general. I posted this on my Facebook last month but I just want to take note of it here as well. Article that inspired me to write this: QA Career Path: What You Need To Know! -- Anyone can execute a test case, but not everyone can test!! Excerpt from the article: Numerous individuals are not comfortable with the professional growth prospects that are accessible in the software testing field. A few myths in the industry identified with picking Software Testing as a career are, They are ridiculous as they sound: - Development is superior to testing career. As anybody can test. - Just the people who can’t code pick software testing as their career path. - Pay rates will be less in software testing in contrast to software development. - There won’t be any future growth in the software testing profession. But all this isn’t a reality at all! I admit that I also had these thoughts when I started my c...

After 5 days of rest and finally getting my own laptop, the time to study Ruby finally came. I've been trying to figure out the best approach to start learning it. I downloaded PDFs that I hoped to read after I got home from work and browsed related articles, but I can't focus. I just feel the itch to try setting it up first and do a simple exercise just so I can familiarize myself with it... and so this happened. Please note that I am not a highly proficient Ruby person as of now. The intent of this post is just for me to document how I did the setup and followed the exercise I found online. If you are also just starting like me, I hope this helps :) Btw, I used Notepad++ as my for scripting. --- Installing Ruby Reference/s: Ruby in 20 minutes:  https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/ Installing Ruby:  https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/ Ruby Installers:  https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ Of course the first th...