How-To Articles on QA and Test Infrastructure for Devops and CD

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I thought it would be useful to collect all the how-to articles I’ve written over the past 10 years. Here they are!

  1. How to run a (test) script whenever a file or directory changes with fswatch
  2. How to read the manpage (manual page) for any shell command
  3. How to write a bug report
  4. How to diff two files that don’t have any line breaks
  5. How to make graphs in the terminal using sparkler
  6. How to use gnuplot to make graphs on the command line
  7. How to set up Headless Webdriver Testing with Xvfb
  8. How to enable syntax highlighting in less
  9. How to enable syntax highlighting for diff
  10. How to run JavaScript Static Analysis with Plato in CI
  11. How to run PHP Static Analysis with SonarQube
  12. How to convert CSV to JSON with jq
  13. How to convert a logfile to JSONp with jq
  14. How to convert plain text logs into CSV with jq
  15. How to use jq for testing APIs, document schemas and more!
  16. How to convert the Git log and git --stat to a JSON document with jq
  17. How to teach yourself to be a professional software engineer who writes testable code (DRAFT YMMV)