You can figure out how to build a product, open a location or get the first customer. When it’s time to grow the team, things start getting tricky. This guide will help you go from doing everything yourself to leading a team and being a good manager.

What does it actually mean to be ‘senior’ in this discipline? I certainly have an opinion of what it means, given that I’m charged with hiring, supporting, and retaining engineers whom are deemed to be senior. This notion that there is a bar to be passed in terms of career development is a good one, but I’d also add that these criteria exist on a spectrum, as opposed to a simple list of check-boxes. You don’t wake up one day and you are “senior” just because your title reflects that upon a promotion. Senior engineers don’t know everything. They’re not perfect in their technical knowledge, and they’re OK with that.

We hit 100 Bite exercises on our Code Platform and that means we have written tests for 100 exercises. In this article I share 10 things I learned about writing test code and pytest.

A great HowTo tutorial by our own Elyezer Rezende explaining how to execute UI automation on Travis using both Chrome and Firefox web browsers with the added bonus of using build stages to group and run jobs in each stage in parallel!

Sometimes I hate the depths I'm willing to sink to in order to debug an issue. Sometimes I love it. I've not made my mind up which one it is for this issue yet, hopefully you'll see why at the end.  

Since the adoption of Polarion we (Messaging QE) had been looking at ways to close the gap between our two disparate systems, JIRA and Polarion.  This document outlines the process we follow to ensure our internal customers can easily find and navigate between JIRA items and their associated test cases.

With everyone looking at Agile, its benefits, and the possible adoption of the Agile framework I wanted to share the Agile Workflow that our Messaging program has implemented.