Breaking News! Selenideium Element Inspector Bounty Hunting Reward Program Is Here ☕
I am an enthusiastic developer since my childhood. I have started with Plus 4 and C 16 machines programming in Basic. I still remember when we were jumping on the bed with my brother, and accidentally saw the Commodore 64 computer on the top of the wardrobe, which was planned to be a Christmas gift for us. I don't have to tell you that we couldn't wait till then. :) I will never forget this memory. Of course in the beginning we only played on the computer, but later I became interested in how can I make my own programs. I have to tell when I first faced the binary number system I did not understand it, but I was still able to draw some sprites on the screen. :)
I continued learning software development during grammar school. I got my Masters degree at the Budapest University of Economics and Technology where I learnt many languages and also learnt a lot about general software development theory and practice.
I have started my professional career as a C++/C# developer, but I switched to Java after a few years. I've visited many meetups and Code Retreats during this time and I've learnt and introduced Agile methodologies in our company. During the years I lead the development team in close cooperation with the product management and testing department.
In 2020 I felt I need something new and I turned towards test automation both API and UI. I did not regret my decision. Since then I tried many frameworks like RestArrured, Selenium, Protractor, Appium, Selenide and Karate.
At the moment I am working as a Senior Software Developer in Test using Selenium and Selenide for UI testing and Karate for API testing.
I believe knowledge sharing is very important, so apart from helping my colleagues work I started my technical blog recently: https://mszeles.com Sharing your knowledge provides many ways for your own development. Whenever I write an article many questions come into my mind which might be interesting for the readers, so I try to answer all of them in my posts. Doing this I learn a lot about the subject. In additionally sharing your knowledge gives a good opportunity for feedback based on which you can further improve.
UPDATE: The program has ended.
As you might already know Selenidium Element Inspector is an open-source Chrome extension with which test automation teams can save hours daily while they are automating tests via using Selenide, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Squish and TestCafe frameworks.
The Backstory
In the last few days, Selenideium had its first 2 contributions.
The first one was a bug report (yeah, bug reports are so important I also count them as contributions ) by TheDevilOfJesters from Pittsburgh 10 days ago. He noticed the Options page showing "Selenium Java" 3 times instead of showing Selenium Java, Selenium Javascript and Selenium C#.
Thanks again for the bug report Jester. 🧡😊
I have to admit however I reacted quite quickly I did not start working on the bug as I was busy writing
All of them are related to software development and blogging, so I highly recommend checking them in case you have not done it yet.
I did not consider the bug showstopper as you can figure out the real meaning of the options with a few clicks, so I left the source code untouched for a few days.
And that is the story, how the second open-source contribution has happened as Jorge Romero submitted a bugfix in the form of a merge request for it.
Thanks, Jorge. 🧡😊
As I am already using buymeacoffee.com which is a great solution to provide the option for my readers to support me, I decided to buy a Coffee for Jorge.
It is of course far from being paid as you would get paid for your daily job, but I remember how happy I was when Maddy bought a coffee for me a few days ago. Thanks, Maddy. 🧡😊
In addition, to show my gratitude for the bugfix I also wanted to show my gratitude to Jester for reporting the bug. So I told him I would like to buy a coffee for him, but I am still waiting for his Buy Me a Coffee link. 😊
And that was the point when the idea of the Selenideium Element Inspector Bounty Hunting Reward Program was born in my mind. 😊
The Selenideium Element Inspector Bounty Hunting Reward Program
The program is very simple. As soon as you do one of the following, I will buy you a coffee:
Report a valid bug
Submit an approved feature request
Fix a reported bug
Implement an approved feature request
Write an article about your experiences with Selenideium Element Inspector. In this case, you can be sure I will share your article on Twitter and LinkedIn too.
QA
Q: Can I get a ☕ for multiple bug reports?
A: Sure, just make sure you submit them as separate issues.
Q: Can I get ☕ for fixing my own bug report/implement my own feature request?
A: Sure. And in case you do that, I will buy 1 extra coffee for you.
Q: Can I get a ☕ in case I write negative things about Selenideium Element Inspector?
A: Having one-two area of improvement mentioned is absolutely ok, but in case it is a completely negative article, then I won't pay a ☕ for it, but instead of that I offer you a 15 minutes long video call, so you can share your experience with me, based on which we can further improve Selenideium Element Inspector.
Q: What if I contribute a lot? Can I earn extra ☕?
A: Sure. I really admire returning contributors, so after every 5 contributions, I will buy an extra ☕ for you. 😊
Q: I love Selenidium Element Inspector as I can really save a lot of time daily. Can I buy you a ☕?
A: Sure. Just click on the link below!
Follow these steps:
Download the Selenideium Element Inspector
Use Selenideium Element Inspector
Check the source code on Github
Report your bug/feature request
Submit fixes and feature implementations
Get a ☕
Go to 2.
In order to motivate you for sharing the news, I will select 5 people randomly from those who share this article on Twitter in the upcoming week. Just do not forget to tag @selenideium. 😊
Happy Bounty Hunting! Enjoy your ☕. 😊
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