Collision Conference, New Orleans May 2017
Collision Conf was an exciting tech conference hosted in New Orleans this month. There were a large number of attendees from all over the world. I didn’t realize that there … Read more
Selenium Conference, Austin 2017 Wrap-up Notes
We went to Selenium Conference (Austin, Texas, 2017) looking for a few key things: The latest news and perspectives from the Selenium project and its core committers, particularly around formalizing … Read more
Further enhancements and capabilities added to my Docker+ZAP-CLI script/Jenkins integration
Since my third follow-up post on my Docker + OWASP ZAP-CLI + Jenkins work — most of which lies in my docker-zap GitHub repo, I’ve made both small and key … Read more
One and Done is being decommissioned October, 2016
One and Done began several years ago as an implementation of a big audacious goal by the Web QA team. We wanted to create a way for people to learn … Read more
(Tough) Lessons learned from integrating Docker, ZAP-CLI, and Jenkins
I learned a great deal — both about technology and approaches in using it — while I worked through last quarter’s goal of getting a Dockerized OWASP-ZAP scanning instance stood … Read more
Dockerized, OWASP-ZAP security scanning, in Jenkins, part two
Following up from my earlier blog post, I was able to get a Dockerized ZAP-CLI up and running in a Jenkins instance! I’ll break this down into five main parts, … Read more
Dockerized, OWASP-ZAP security scanning, in Jenkins, part one
For a very long time, I’ve been interested in automated security testing. Alan Parkinson’s “Automated Security Testing” presentation at Selenium Conference 2012 really highlighted the possibilities, for me. Since then, … Read more
Web QA: 2015 – Year in Review
(Sorry it’s late – better late than never, yeah?) As we did last year, it’s always great to revisit and highlight all the awesome work we did over the course … Read more
Stepping Into a New, Individual-Contributor Role on Web QA
For me, it’s always tough to make announcements like this (it took me three days to craft the email I sent to my team), but it’s one I’ve thought about … Read more
Web QA’s New IRC Bot
We are pleased to announce that our brand new IRC bot, webqabot, has joined our IRC channel. webqabot is very similar to mozwebqabot, who used to inhabit the channel, except … Read more
“I Am Mozilla Web QA” – meet Madalin Cotetiu
What do you do at Mozilla? Currently I’m part of the Web QA team where I work on the Marketplace and the Add-ons websites as a manual tester. What … Read more
Selenium Conference 2015 Wrap-up Notes
This year, I set out to attend Selenium Conference 2015 with some specific goals: See which JavaScript framework(s)/librar(y|ies) are being used and recommended for “full-stack” testing (as a potential complement … Read more