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John Ferguson Smart

Feature Coverage vs Code Coverage: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters

Discover the power of feature coverage — a new way to measure the quality and completeness of your software testing.

3 min readMar 6, 2023

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Feature Coverage vs Code Coverage: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters

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John Ferguson Smart

How To Include Manual Tests In Your Serenity Reports

Serenity BDD is a powerful tool for writing automated tests in Java or JavaScript/TypeScript (with Serenity/JS) and documenting the results…

4 min readFeb 5, 2023

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How To Include Manual Tests In Your Serenity Reports

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John Ferguson Smart

API Testing 101: HTTP Verbs And How To Test Them

APIs are everywhere in modern applications, and for a modern software tester, API testing is a must-have, and these days REST is the most…

5 min readFeb 1, 2023

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API Testing 101: HTTP Verbs And How To Test Them

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John Ferguson Smart

How To Run Your Serenity BDD Tests 10 Times Faster!

Exciting news! The latest version 3.6.x of Serenity BDD has just been released, and it brings full support for parallel test execution in…

2 min readJan 30, 2023

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How To Run Your Serenity BDD Tests 10 Times Faster!

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John Ferguson Smart

The Two Side Of API Testing (And Why You’re Probaly Focusing On The Wrong One)

As a test automation engineer, you know that APIs are a crucial part of modern software development, and that and API testing is all the…

2 min readJan 26, 2023

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The Two Side Of API Testing (And Why You’re Probaly Focusing On The Wrong One)

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John Ferguson Smart

BDD Is Not About Test Automation.

BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) has become increasingly popular over the past few years. Many organisations see it as a key factor to…

2 min readJan 22, 2023

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BDD Is Not About Test Automation.

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John Ferguson Smart

Screenplay: “Making test automation coding fun again”

The Screenplay Pattern is one of my favourite ways to code automation. As one tester I know said, it “makes test automation coding fun…

2 min readJan 22, 2023

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Screenplay: “Making test automation coding fun again”

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John Ferguson Smart

Do you always need Cucumber to do BDD?

Cucumber is a great tool, and many teams find that the Gherkin format is an excellent way to represent business rules and examples and to…

2 min readJan 22, 2023

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Do you always need Cucumber to do BDD?

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John Ferguson Smart

6 Tips To Learning Test Automation Faster

So you want to learn test automation? Awesome! But what language should you learn?

2 min readJan 22, 2023

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6 Tips To Learning Test Automation Faster

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John Ferguson Smart

How to name your BDD scenarios

Naming Cucumber features and scenarios doesn’t have to be hard, but 95% of teams get it wrong.

2 min readJan 22, 2023

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How to name your BDD scenarios

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John Ferguson Smart

John Ferguson Smart

Author of BDD in Action and founder of the Serenity Dojo (https://www.serenity-dojo.com), John is a well-known expert in agile software testing and automation.

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