by Sargon Benjamin | May 4, 2020 | automation, communication, java, leadership, quality
I’ve interviewed hundreds of software engineers and reviewed 1,000+ resumes, especially SDETs – Software Development Engineers in Test and Software Tooling Automation developers. Here’s a rundown of the playbook I use when interviewing an SDET candidate. I’m...
by Sargon Benjamin | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
This reflective piece journals my internal dialogue and motivations for creating sargonsays, the online English to Assyrian Dictionary. “How do you preserve a dying language? Why even bother and what’s the point?”. These questions reverberate in my mind, incessantly...
by Sargon Benjamin | Oct 27, 2019 | communication, leadership, management
This post will itemize my list of Software Engineering Management resources to help recover from mistakes and prevent repeat occurrences. As leaders, we make mistakes. I’m sharing my collection of beloved resources that have helped me both tactically and also inspired...
by Sargon Benjamin | Oct 18, 2019 | jmeter, performance, tutorial
When our Rest API tests fail, our developers need to view the full request body (not just the request url and params) from Jenkins. In this use case, the JMeter GUI is not a viable option for test results viewership. We often use JMeter to perform functional testing...
by Sargon Benjamin | Sep 12, 2019 | development, tutorial
Profiling is good. Errrrm, it’s good for debugging the performance and runtime of a Java app, in particular the functions that the CPU spends most of its cycles in. We recently had a customer filed bug where CPU usage for a particular java based process would...
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