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UI Unit Testing with Selenium – Part 4 – Selenium Server

Last time, I went over more advanced uses of Webdriver as well as putting together a framework of shared methods which can be hooked up to unit tests. For this last post, I’ll be standing up an instance of Selenium Server on Amazon Web Services and refactoring the test framework to point to that instance for testing.

What is Selenium Server?

Selenium Server is basically a hosted service that can accept and run Selenium tests independent of the actual testing client. This allows for shared infrastructure that can be accessed by various clients without repeating the provisioning and setup of WebDriver files and other libraries.

For the provisioning of Selenium Server, I’ve decided to try out Amazon Web Services Elastic Computing service. If you’re curious about AWS and want to take it for a spin, you can sign up for a free trial period that’s currently 1 year! Information on EC2 and a link to sign up for the free trial is available at this link.

Standing up Selenium Server on AWS EC2

So first, I need a host. After signing up for my free trial, provisioning an EC2 virtual machine using Windows Server only took a few minutes.

Then, I was able to copy over the Selenium Server JAR file and the Chrome WebDriver.exe. Both of these can be found at the Selenium downloads page here.

Additionally, since the service is a Java Virtual Machine, I needed to install a Java Runtime Environment located here.

With my host, runtime and libraries in place, it’s time to start the service itself. This involves a simple command line statement. Elements show the location of the Chrome WebDriver on the EC2 host and I’ve also created a log file to keep track of any activity.

java -jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\ChromeWebDriver\chromedriver.exe C:\SeleniumServer\selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar -log “C:\\SeleniumServer\SeleniumLog.txt”

Refactoring the test project

Once the host is available, it’s just a matter of starting the host and telling the framework where it’s located. This requires the download of an additional NuGet package called OpenQA.Selenium.Remote which gives you access to the RemoteWebDriver class. Then I updated my Login and InternalLogin methods to use that as the framework’s IWebDriver object instead of the local one.

With these changes in place, my tests passed with flying colors. While I chose not to run tests in anything but Chrome this time around, adding additional platforms for testing is as easy as adding the drivers to Selenium Server and then updating the DesiredCapabilities argument of the RemoteWebDriver object.

To wrap it all up, I committed my refactor to my SeleniumFramework repo on GitHub. Please feel free to look at the updated version and pass along any feedback you might have.

Again, I hadn’t expected this series to take as long as it did, but it feels good to bring it to a close with some working code to show for it. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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UI Unit Testing with Selenium – Part 3 – Advanced Webdriver & A Real World Example

Last time, I got into the basics of Webdriver and put together a couple of tests against ServiceNow. For this post, I’m going to take a look at more advanced uses of Webdriver as well as putting together a framework of shared methods which can be hooked up to unit tests. This involved going a little off script for the original course, but I think this series might be better served demonstrating application of the actual content rather than repeating it.

The goals that I have for this post will involve creating a new Solution with a Unit Test project as well as a Selenium framework class that can be reused within multiple tests. Again, I’ll be testing against my private dev instance of ServiceNow, but I think it will be readily apparent how the framework could be extended as needed for other web frameworks.

I began by first creating a new testing project in Visual Studio, called SeleniumFrameworkTests. Then I added the following tests based on the activities I demonstrated in the previous post.

LoginAsUser
LoginAsSuperUser
CreateIncidentAsUser
CreateIncidentAsSuperUser

I knew I’d want each test to be completely abstracted from the plumbing of ServiceNow, so I kept each test down to three arguments: environment, username and password. The environment would hold the URL of the instance we’re connecting to. And the username and password would contain those values for the account role needed to perform the tasks. Lastly, I created an app.config file to hold the values.

Next, I created the main framework class called SeleniumFramework. This framework class would need to include the Selenium and Selenium.Support packages from NuGet. With that in place, I created the general Login method which accepts the environment, username and password arguments. Then I copied the login steps from the previous post. This allowed both the LoginAsUser and LoginAsSuperUser tests to pass.

The CreateIncident methods proved to be a little trickier. First, each would require it’s own IWebDriver object with a valid login in order to proceed. It made more sense to create a private method that returns an IWebDriver object for use by the CreateIncident methods.

With that in place, I copied in the CreateIncident steps from the previous post. The CreateIncidentAsUser test then passed but the SuperUser role has a different interface than the base User. To get that test to pass, I had to create a separate method and tweak the UI names as needed for the test to then pass.

To wrap it all up, I created a new repo on Github called SeleniumFramework. Please feel free to take it for a spin yourself. All you’ll need is a demo instance of ServiceNow as well as a copy of Visual Studio Community, both of which are free!

I know this series has taken much longer than I expected. However, I plan to close it out next time with an implementation of Selenium Server, most likely using the above testing project.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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UI Unit Testing with Selenium – Part 2 – Webdriver Basics

Last time, I did a quick run-through of Selenium IDE for Firefox and got acquainted with the interface and commands associated with Selenium. This time, I’m diving more into the meat of the framework and using Webdriver.

Webdriver is an API for that can be used by various languages (C#, Java, Python, & Ruby are some examples) that allows your tests to be maintained and run directly from code rather than using a recorder. This allows us to take a more programmatical approach to testing rather than relying on the recorder exclusively.

We will be using Visual Studio for this example. Firefox is supported right out of the box, but IE and Chrome require a special binary to be staged locally in order for those browsers to be used with Selenium. This (and others) can be located via links at SeleniumHQ.

Since Chrome is my own preferred browser, I’m glad to move away from Firefox and experiment with something a bit more familiar. I decided to start with rerunning the test that I created using Selenium IDE previously, then build on that a bit.

One feature that I didn’t mention about Selenium IDE, is the export function. This creates source code in your chosen framework (C#, Java, etc.) from the Selenium markup code created by the recorder.

One cool thing about the export is that it intersperses the markup within your code as comments. This can be very useful when retracing what was done in a recording or for general documentation.

First off, I created a C# console project and installed the Selenium Webdriver plugin from NuGet. With that in place, I’ve added the export from my previous post to a new project to test with Chrome. My code is below:

using OpenQA.Selenium;

using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;

namespace WebDriverDemo

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(@”C:\Libraries\”);

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(“https://dev20556.service-now.com/navpage.do”);

driver.SwitchTo().Frame(“gsft_main”);

driver.FindElement(By.Name(“user_name”)).Click();

driver.FindElement(By.Id(“user_name”)).Clear();

driver.FindElement(By.Id(“user_name”)).SendKeys(“USERNAMEGOESHERE”);

driver.FindElement(By.Id(“user_password”)).Clear();

driver.FindElement(By.Id(“user_password”)).SendKeys(“PASSWORDGOESHERE”);

driver.FindElement(By.Id(“sysverb_login”)).Click();

}

This sample using the export from my previous post results in a successful login. Now to build on it a little bit and create a test Incident:

driver.FindElement(By.LinkText(“Incidents”)).Click();

driver.SwitchTo().Frame(“gsft_main”);

driver.FindElement(By.Id(“new_incident”)).Click();

SelectElement urgency = new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Name(“IO:5a33d0ef0a0a0b9b007b906f6c589c57”)));

urgency.SelectByText(“1 – High”);

driver.FindElement(By.Name(“IO:3f272c500a0a0b990059c24380a2bc02”)).SendKeys(“Creating a test incident.”);

driver.FindElement(By.Name(“submit_button”)).Click();

Just adding these few extra lines results in a repeatable New Incident test.

incidentsuccess

It’s easy to start to see how this framework can be used to build a library of repeatable tests to automate QA and regression testing.

Link to the Full .NET API : http://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/dotnet/

As I continue to progress through the Pluralsight course, my next post should cover advanced WebDriver concepts and possibly Selenium Server.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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UI Unit Testing with Selenium – Part 1

So, I’m making it through the Selenium Pluralsight course slowly but surely and I’m learning quite a bit so far.

The first part covers a browser plug-in called Selenium IDE. Available only for Firefox, it’s essentially a session recording tool, It records what we do in the browser then parses those into commands and then can be played back to act as tests. To take this out for a spin, I went ahead and installed the plug-in and watched the demo on the course. Now, we’ll need to find something suitable to test it on.

There’s a SaaS platform called ServiceNow that I’ve been spending a great deal of time in this year. Automating testing against this platform from a central host is one of my goals for this experiment. To test this out, I’ve created a test instance of ServiceNow and a test user. Also, I’ve installed the Selenium IDE on Firefox so that I can record my session in the platform.

My demo is basically automating a login for my test user. First I’ll need to create a fresh test case in Selenium.

Then, I’ll record the steps to the login to get a complete test.

Then I’ll run the test and see if it logs me into the system, which it does.

This is just scratching the surface of Selenium and I have more modules in the course to cover. Next post, I’ll have some additional content from the next module (Selenium Web Driver) and possibly a little more.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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UI Unit Testing with Selenium – An Experiment

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Part writers block and part outside obligations. I know you’ve all been despondent and lost in the meantime. Sorry about that. 🙂

Something that’s a recurring puzzle for me is adapting unit testing to MVC and SaaS solutions. The challenges from my point of view are that MVC implies a lot of its functionality. For example, things in MVC behave in very specific manners based on where they’re located or what they’re named. Also, MVC classes (models) generally don’t have or need default constructors, so a traditional approach of instantiating a class an running business logic is insufficient.

Then, for SaaS solutions, you may not have sufficient access to the plumbing to build your tests directly, so you’re stuck automating a session through the SaaS provider’s interface and (hopefully) capturing the results that you need. An approach to MVC might look very similar.

Enter Selenium

Either my Google-fu is weak in this space or there aren’t a lot of options for automating tests in this manner. One framework that gets a lot of mentions is Selenium, so I’m going to take a stab at it. I’ve found a few good blog resources but also remember that John Sonmez did a Pluralsight course that seems to be right up my alley.

My plan for this week is to watch the course and play around with the framework against a solution or two, then post about the results. If the path seems promising, I’ll follow up with some additional content.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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Adding Widgets to WordPress

I wanted to flesh out the blog itself a little bit and experiment with WordPress. So, I decided to add some Widgets to the sidebar. These are configurable items that you can arrange alongside other WordPress content like menu and category links. They can be based on plug-ins or can be iFrames or just straight HTML so I’ve added a few examples. Once created, they can be arranged or reordered at will or shown/hidden based on certain conditions such as page or WordPress user properties.

First off, I wanted to brand the blog using the logo from Simple Programmer that I earned by completing the course that launched this blog in the first place. This is a simple hyperlink tag sourcing an image file as the element. To add this, I created a Text widget which allows you to add arbitrary text or html.

Next, I wanted to add a link back to the Github repository I created for a previous entry here. I accomplished this by installing a plug-in called WP Github from the WordPress marketplace. This allows you to add widgets for various GitHub categories such as repos, commits or issues. I’ve added the top level profile widget for now, but you can insert various other widgets specifically for repos or commit history.

Just for fun, I included a link to my Myers-Briggs personality type from 16 Personalities. This quiz and personality typing has been popular at some of the organizations and businesses I’ve worked with, some even going to far as to require employees to post them beside their nameplates. Adding this involved another Text widget. This one is a simple anchor tag referencing an image from the site and linking back to the 16 Personalities website.

Code: <a href=”https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality”><img src=”https://www.16personalities.com/images/types/intj.png”></a>

My last widget is a bit of personal accountability for me. I’ve struggled with weight for most of my life and have been tracking my weight and eating habits at Livestrong. This is a free service and they also provide a code snippet that points back to your progress on their website. This was accomplished by pasting in the code snippet into another Text widget.

Pretty straightforward stuff, right? As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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BenedettiTech’s Reading List

I’ve been seeing quite a few book recommendation lists lately. So, I decided to throw my own hat into the ring with my own list of book recommendations.

While writing this list, I laid down a few ground rules for myself:

Only 1 book per author – I did keep a short list of runners up after the main list.
No Fiction – Unless the lesson from the book is singular and embedded, you might have better luck looking for a philosophy book with an explicit lesson and a more thorough explanation. Lessons from fiction to me are mostly subjective and allegorical so I kept a short list of fiction books that I would recommend to anyone.
I have to have read it recently enough that I can summarize the book from memory. – My thoughts are: If I can’t throw together a few sentences about the book from memory, it must not have been that impactful.

The List

The Art of War – Attributed to Sun Tzu & Others. My absolute favorite. Don’t let the title put you off. This is as much about preparation and choosing your battles as actual conflict.

The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt – Great soft skills title that I recommend to all developers.

The War of Art – Steven Pressfield – Not exactly an inversion of the first book on this list. This title is about focusing on and executing on your goals. It’s about the importance if action and how to not sit idle.

Soft Skills – John Sonmez – I ordered a copy of this to share with my team at my regular job. It’s surprisingly broad for a work intended for an IT audience. I could even call it a holistic approach to living life as a developer.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey – A classic on mindful and focused execution. The themes and habits of this book are taught in grade schools now.

Choose Yourself – James Altucher – This book is about betting on yourself in the face of adversity.

Purple Cow – Seth Godin – This book was required reading for me in college and is about standing out. In a world full of developers, services and consultants, what makes you stand out?

Getting Things Done – David Allen – A productivity system that is as much about cognitive load and capacity as it is about efficiency. I use it daily.

The Demon Haunted World – Carl Sagan – A good primer on worldly skepticism and critical thinking from the man himself.

The Art of Deception – Kevin Mitnick – Case studies on social engineering and black hat strategies. Reinforces the point that people are always the weakest link in IT Security.

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton – A quasi autobiographical collection of memoirs from Dr. Richard Feynman. Reinforces the idea that its possible to literally change the world while having fun and having a life.

Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki – A basic education in money management and asset growth that should be required reading for every student.

So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport – Titled with a paraphrased quote from Steve Martin, this is a long form reminder to focus on skill growth in your trade while striving to excel and continuously parlay those skills into more important or valuable roles.

What If? – Randall Munroe – Anyone familiar with the web comic xkcd may already be familiar with this or even own a copy. An entertaining attempt to answer interesting thought experiments with solid science and fun humor.

This Is How – Augusten Burroughs – A collection of essays that addresses strategies for confronting monumental life events and circumstances that can stop any of our lives in its tracks despite our best laid plans. Blunt and plainspoken while still being compassionate.

Runners Up

The Warrior Ethos – Another one by Steven Pressfield. This one is a more general overview of having a code and being worthy of trust.

The Dip – Another one by Seth Godin. Shares a message with War of Art and Choose Yourself. The main difference is that this book predicts that there will always be a point in any project or journey where you’ve lost momentum and feel stuck. This can be both an obstacle or overcome but also an opportunity to stop and ask yourself if the goal is still worth your time.

Pale Blue Dot – Probably a more popular Sagan work than the one I chose. This one focuses on the imperatives of taking care of our planet and making an investment in a shared future, recognizing that it’s the only one we have (so far) and we’re all in this together.

Fiction

Neuromancer – William Gibson – This is a classic of the cyberpunk genre and is credited with the coining of the term The Matrix for an Internet in the style of shared virtual reality. Also touches on the concept of the Technological Singularity.

American Gods – Comparative religion and the modern personification of mythological figures is a popular realm for Neil Gaiman. Expect to hear more about this novel in the coming months as it’s currently being turned into a feature length movie.

The Godfather – Probably the one novel I’d choose to be stranded with on a deserted island. While most movies based on novels are derided for leaving out key elements, I believe the movie not only honors the source material but also complements it. If you read it for one reason only, do it for the backstory of Luca Brasi. You’ll never look at his halting wedding benediction the same way again.

I’m interested in hearing feedback on this list or some additional suggestions of your own. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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GameCareerGuide – Unity Platformer Tutorial

So, in keeping with the C# theme, I decided to take a stab at creating a small project in Unity and publishing it to Azure. To do this, I followed a tutorial provided by GameCareerGuide to create a simple platformer.

What is Unity? Unity is a popular game development platform that is free for individual developers contingent on revenue reaching a certain benchmark. (Currently $100K). You also have the option to buy a Pro subscription for $75 a month. I’m only at a stage where I’m tinkering around with the IDE and learning, so I’m not interested in paying for a sub if it’s not necessary.

What is Game Career Guide? GameCareerGuide is a site aimed at helping individuals who want to pursue a career in Game Development. There are various news items as well as links to resources and communities to help people launch or grow their careers. I came across the 2014 edition of their publication here and the tutorial I’m using begins on page 36.

Creating this was pretty straight forward. I had a copy of the 5.x version of Unity already installed and went through the steps in the tutorial creating various assets/objects to use in the game. One hurdle I ran into was needing to update the code as one of the base classes it relied on had been deprecated since the release of the guide. I was able to solve it using some simple cut & paste outlined in this article

Next, I was having some issues committing the completed project to a Github repository. Something to do with how Github handles line breaks that can cause code corruption in some cases. Fortunately, updating the Github configuration for the new repo did the trick. I was able to use the Github CLI with the assistance of this article here to allow my code to commit. Even with the config change, my code built smoothly so I’m pretty sure there’s no risk.

After that, I created a new Web App node on my Azure account and used FileZilla to load my build via FTP. At first, the game was erroring out in both Firefox and IE so again I had to make a stop at the Googleverse. It seems that the site needed to provide a configuration item to allow the proprietary .unity3d file to download when you load the site. I was able to add the web.config file based on the following article

Finally, it was time to test out the game. Quite honestly, I’m a bit overly proud of taking these disparate platforms and making them work together. Plus it’s just neat to get something new to work, even if it’s trivial.

If you’re curious about the game, you can find it here . The controls are Left and Right Arrow and the spacebar and the object is to reach the yellow ‘exit’ square at which point the level resets. My son suggested that I might add some more levels and make it grow more difficult at each new level. Additionally, if you want to see the source code, you can find the repo on my Github account here.

If any of you are curious about or have used Unity or have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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My Experience @ Hack.summit() 2016

And now for something completely different….

I wanted to share some details about a vitural conference I attended this past week called hack.summit(). https://hacksummit.org/ This wholly online conference is in its second year and is a good resource for people who would like to attend a conference and take advantage of some Q&A and workshops with leaders in our field. The cost for registration is mostly free, either a share on social media or a small donation

I attended the debut session of hack.summit() in 2014. The format is a combination of talks, Q&As and short workshops. One of the more memorable ones for me last year was an hour long session building a coffee shop locator from scratch in about an hour. Link

Here’s a short summary of the sessions I attended this year:

Floyd Marinescu – CEO of InfoQ.com – This session consisted mainly about how to establish suitable cultures for virtual teams, meaning teams that aren’t necessarily bound to the same office but must collaborate on projects from separate physical locations. There are suggestions around patterns and the myriad of tools that are available to virtual teams. This was interesting as I’m already working on a virtual team covering at least four separate locations. Additionally, there was mention of InfoQ and a recommendation to spend some time there to read up on current issues and have an opportunity to collaborate with others.

Kent Beck – Created Extreme Programming, created TDD, co-created Agile, authored 9 books – It’s ironic that this talk was the day before a half-day lunch and learn my team had on TDD and Dependency Injection. TDD is not a new paradigm but understanding the need for unit tests and structuring your code so that it’s testable on a granular level is vital for long term supportability of your codebase, especially if you’ve got multiple individuals working in that code base and for any inheritors of your code. I’m sure we’ve all inherited examples of stale (yet production) code with documentation with multiple birthdays and wish we had at least some insight as to why certain sections of code even exist.

Gregg Pollack – CEO, Codeschool – This was another ‘soft skills’ session presented by the CEO of Codeschool (recently acquired by Pluralsight) titled ‘ The Developers Path to Success and Winning’. This was a general discussion of components that would help you build a successful career as a developer, including how to seek out a mentor, attending meetups and conferences, knowing what’s important enough to demand your attention (being deliberate about your work and learning), how to seek out work to stretch yourself, etc.

Janet Weiner – Engineering at Facebook, big data expert – Open Data Challenges at Facebook – I’ll admit that the bulk of this talk was way over my head. Overall, it was a case study on how data availability presents problems as it scales to unprecedented quantities, using Facebook’s architecture as an example. While I’m not very familiar with ‘Big Data’ yet, it’s definitely on my radar as something to become familiar with in the near future. This was a good example of a presentation showing me exactly how much I don’t know!

Mostly I enjoyed the ability to attend virtually and the ability to go back as needed to cover things I might have missed. If you’d like to register and access the content, it’s not too late! All you’ll need to is go through the registration process at the hack.summit() website and you’ll have access to all of the talks and reference materials.

If any of you is curious about (or may have attended) hack.summit() 2016 or have any questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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Creating a Github Repo

So, this week I created a Github account for Benedetti Tech. For those of you that are not familiar, Github is a web based repository for open source projects with tools for source control, issue tracking and collaboration with other open source developers. It’s become popular enough that you might count on potential employers to look for any accounts associated with your name in order to evaluate you for work, whether you invite them to or not. This isn’t to say that you MUST have an account to be taken seriously for employment, only that it’s another option and opportunity to grow and showcase your skills with others in the industry. Full disclosure: I barely use my personal Github account and yet have somehow managed to remain gainfully employed.

As part of creating a new Github account, there’s an invitation to a simple ‘Hello World’ walkthrough located at https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/ This article will focus on a walkthrough of that guide.

Step 1 is to create a new repository using your Github account. Although reasonable people may differ as to what a repository should equate to, I use the term ‘single codebase’ to refer to a single repository. A codebase can consist of multiple apps, integrations or services. The idea here is to have a single logical grouping of code (and hopefully tests and documentation) with which to associate with a history of issues/stories and commit history. This can help users or inheritors of your code to gain insight into the history of an application that might prove helpful when trying to understand the intent of said codebase.

It’s a pretty simple step, from the Github console, click the + then New Repository link.

Now that we have our newly minted repository, the next step is to create a branch. Usually you’ll have a master or main line codebase that should be a representation of what’s in production. Branches represent code in development may eventually make it into the production code. Each branch will have its own history of commits and the capability to annotate them or roll them back as needed.

To create a branch, click on the branch dropdown. A dialog will appear where you can type in a new branch name and then you can click Create. Once you’ve created the branch, the console will automatically switch to your new branch as your current branch.

Now that you have your new branch, it’s time to make some changes and commit them. The way the Github orientation suggests doing this is by editing the Readme file via the console. I’m going to take this outside the box a little bit and install Github Desktop. This is a GUI console you can keep on your desktop with which to manage local copies of your repositories (that you will eventually be developing on locally). The link to download is https://desktop.github.com/ and the app is available for Windows or Mac. I’ll be installing the Windows version.

After I’ve installed Github Desktop, I can clone the repository I’ve just created by clicking the + sign and Clone.

First, I’ll select a directory where the local clone will reside. Then, I’ll open the Readme.md file and make some changes as the walkthrough suggests.

After saving my changes, I’ll go back to Github Desktop and see if it’s detected my changes. And it has! Now I’ll add a Summary to the changes (Always try to make these detailed!) and then commit the changes to the branch.

The next step in the walkthrough is to create a Pull Request to merge the branch back into the master. You’ll have to excuse the additional merge commit as I initially made my changes to the Readme in the master instead of the branch. Let this be a lesson to always ensure you’re working in the correct branch!

After I’ve reviewed the commits, I’m ready to create the Pull Request itself. Give it a title and some decent notes and then click the Create Pull Request button.

Now that I’ve created the Pull Request, the request will need to be reviewed and either merged to master, or possibly denied and returned with comment. Ideally, this should be done by someone who is reviewing the code and evaluating its possible benefit or impact to the codebase. Think of it as an in-line code review. Either way, this process is at the heart of collaboration around these projects whether working with a team at the same business or hacking in your own free time.

Once it’s been reviewed, I’ll comment and click Merge Pull Request. If there are no conflicts, you should get a confirmation message. That’s it! I’ve created my first repo and walked through the basic steps of branching, committing and merging.

I’m interested in hearing about your opinions and experiences with Github and I would invite you to follow my account there. Additionally, I’d be happy to hear about what you’re working on and see if there are any opportunities for collaboration or even just sharing knowledge. Please do feel free to follow Benedetti Tech on Github and invite me to do the same!

If any of you have suggestions around Github or have any other questions or comments, please feel free to add them here or address them to john@benedettitech.com.

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