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Gregory Paciga

Astrophysicist by training, software tester by trade. Organizer of the Ministry of Testing meetup in Toronto. He/him.

Location Toronto Joined Joined on  Personal website https://gerg.dev github website twitter website

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Lead Developer, DevOps & Test Automation

The myth of “unstable” code
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The myth of “unstable” code

#automation #culture #generaltesting
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Three ways that “Manual Testing” is a waste*
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Three ways that “Manual Testing” is a waste*

#automation #generaltesting #agile #alanpage
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The Secret Skill on Your QA Resume
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The Secret Skill on Your QA Resume

#career #cv #dontrepeatyourself #jobhunting
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Bad reasons to test
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Bad reasons to test

#automation #generaltesting #agiletesting #cost
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You might not need to fix your flakey tests
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You might not need to fix your flakey tests

#automation #changefailrate #flakeytests #flakytests
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Coffee break tests: An exercise in test design
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Coffee break tests: An exercise in test design

#automation #controls #design #negativetests
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Testing in 2021, according to my Twitter bookmarks
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Testing in 2021, according to my Twitter bookmarks

#testing #twitter #analytics
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Gatekeeping in testing
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Gatekeeping in testing

#culture #terminology #gatekeeping #geraldweinberg
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Going deeper on “Should we automate each negative test?”
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Going deeper on “Should we automate each negative test?”

#automation #apitesting #equivalencepartition #markwinteringham
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The Gambler and other fallacies in Testing
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The Gambler and other fallacies in Testing

#testing #fallacies
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Three ways to make metrics suck less
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Three ways to make metrics suck less

#culture #measurement #cemkaner #communication
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What should the ratio of automated to exploratory testing be?
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What should the ratio of automated to exploratory testing be?

#automation #generaltesting #measurement #questions
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Throttling Jenkins pipelines per node
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Throttling Jenkins pipelines per node

#automation #jenkins #jenkinspipelines #jenkinsplugins
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Making Chromedriver and Chrome versions match in a Docker image
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Making Chromedriver and Chrome versions match in a Docker image

#automation #chrome #chromedriver #docker
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Why are developers against testability?
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Why are developers against testability?

#automation #culture #devrel
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Scaling the y-axis of Kibana visualizations
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Scaling the y-axis of Kibana visualizations

#datavisualization #elastic #elasticsearch #kibana
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Adventures with escaping quotes in Jenkins pipelines
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Adventures with escaping quotes in Jenkins pipelines

#jenkins #bash #escapingquotes #groovy
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Jenkins: Check whether a DSL method exists
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Jenkins: Check whether a DSL method exists

#automation #cpsscript #groovy #jenkins
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Regression and Functional tests are meaningless
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Regression and Functional tests are meaningless

#culture #terminology #functionaltesting #pedantry
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Creating a Job DSL seed job with JCasC
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Creating a Job DSL seed job with JCasC

#devops #jenkins #jobdsl #jcasc
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Scaling visual testing with BackstopJS (Part 2)
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Scaling visual testing with BackstopJS (Part 2)

#automation #backstopjs #javascript #opensource
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Don’t “check” or “verify” in your tests
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Don’t “check” or “verify” in your tests

#testing #tips
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Scaling visual testing with BackstopJS (Part 1)
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Scaling visual testing with BackstopJS (Part 1)

#automation #backstopjs #javascript #node
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A demonstration of Mutation Testing
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A demonstration of Mutation Testing

#testing #javascript #jest
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Testing in 2019, according to my Twitter bookmarks
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Testing in 2019, according to my Twitter bookmarks

#testing #twitter #yearinreview
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