Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
Last week, when looking into how to configure the Microsoft Teams reporter for Playwright on Azure DevOps in combination with the Playwright Azure Reporter, I ran into a problem where a variable that set in the Node.js task was not available in the subsequent tasks. In the reporter’s code, I noticed that the variable gets set using process.
Read moreI have been using Playwright to automate my tests for a long time, but one thing I struggled with was automating the login flow for Microsoft 365 with a multi-factor authentication (MFA) account. When using an MFA-enabled account, you must provide an additional manual step to complete the login process.
Read moreWhen developing a custom GitHub Action, you should test and run it locally before pushing it to your repository. Initially, I created a script that allowed me to run it locally, but over the weekend, I found a better way by using the @github/local-action command-line tool. Show image GitHub local-action debugger In this post, I will show you how to use the @github/local-action command-line tool to test your custom GitHub Action locally.
Read moreAs various projects I maintain for customers include end-to-end (E2E) tests using Playwright, which run on a daily schedule and on every new release, I wanted to automate following up on failed tests. Instead of manually creating issues, I automated the process using GitHub Actions and the GitHub API. This worked great, but I thought to myself, why not share this with the world?
Read moreYou can use the GitHub Actions workflow repository_dispatch event trigger to start a workflow by triggering a webhook. I use this event trigger to start a workflow for building my website when I create or update content in my blog repository. Because my website and the blog content are two separate repositories, I must use the repository_dispatch event to trigger the website build workflow.
Read moreWhile creating new E2E tests for a SharePoint Framework solution, I wanted to test the solution with different permission sets. Usually, when you run your tests, you start these up with a user with the required permissions to run the tests. Instead of creating a new user with different permissions or different sites/pages to perform the tests, I looked into the possibility of overriding the context properties of SPFx.
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