I am not a hard-core fan of the New Year's Eve celebrations. Anyhow, I decided to start the year sharing with you the best Automate The Planet's content from 2016.

Also, I wanted to thank you for continuing reading my articles. Supporting the idea of writing high-quality automation, being "lazy", creative and full of energy. This way I believe we help the world to become much better place- faster.



2016 Success Story

2016 was a massive success for me.



Visitors

220k views and 110k visitors

Subscribers

The number of the subscribers grew from 200 to 2400+



Number of Articles



I didn't skip even a week past year to publish a new article, so a new milestone was covered- 200 articles!



New Social Pages



The new Facebook page is a huge deal. 16k+ fans! Thank you!



Almost 5000 followers on Twitter. Unbelievable! (4000 for 2016)



New beautiful G﻿+ Page!



Complete Site Redesign



We deployed the new version of the site on 30.12.2016 just for the start of 2017. Please, share your thoughts about it in the comments. There is a new logo too! The new site is 70+% faster.



It was a really long journey. After lots of work, conversations, over 100 bugs, 7 programmers, the new version of the site is here!!! I hope you like it!



The new Resouces Section where you can download lots of free materials.



Conferences

I was a speaker at SEETEST 2016﻿ conference in Bucharest Romania and Heisenbug 2016 in Moscow Russia. It was an honour for me to talk there. You can find the recordings and the slide decks in my Special Edition Series.



Quality Matters Magazine



My paper got published in Quality Matters Magazine.



Interviews

There were several interviews with me last year. You can find one of them on the site of my friend Thanh Huynh (AskTester).



Best Automate The Planet Articles for 2016



Ordered by total views for 2016.



Articles from 2016



1. ﻿Get Property Names Using Lambda Expressions in C# (4469)

2. ﻿﻿10 Advanced WebDriver Tips and Tricks Part 1 (3222)

3. Top 9 Windows Event Log Tips Using C#﻿ (3047)

4. 10 Advanced WebDriver Tips and Tricks Part 2 (2117)

5. J﻿e﻿nkins C# API Library for Triggering Builds (1747)

6. 10 Advanced WebDriver Tips and Tricks Part 3 (1422)

7. Behaviours Design Pattern in Automated Testing (1291)

8. Getting Started with Telerik Testing Framework C# in 10 Minutes (1206)

9. Specification Design Pattern in Automated Testing (1141)

10. Rules Design Pattern in Automated Testing﻿﻿﻿ (1036)



Articles from All Time



1. Page Object Pattern in Automated Testing (16492)

2. I﻿ntegrate Jenkins wi﻿th MSBuild and NuGet﻿ (12107)

3. THC-Hydra- Online Password Cracking By Examples (9496)

4. Configure Jenkins MSTest Tests Execution (7462)

5. Getting Started with WebDriver C# in 10 Minutes (6258)

6. ﻿I﻿ntegrate Jenkins with T﻿eam Foundation Server﻿ (5193)

7. ﻿Get Property Names Using Lambda Expressions in C#﻿ (4469)

8. ﻿Advanced Page Object Pattern in Automated Testing (4097)

9. Connect to TFS Team Project C# Code﻿ (3882)

10. ﻿Singleton Design Pattern in Automated Testing (3360)



Code Project Articles from 2016



As you may know, I am a Code Project MVP for 2016, so I publish almost all of my articles there too. At the beginning of this year, another milestone will be reached- 1 million reads of my articles there.



Articles from 2016



1. Get Property Names Using Lambda Expressions in C# (11820)

2. Top 9 Windows Event Log Tips Using C# (6915)

3. Jenkins C# API Library for Triggering Builds (6400)

4. Strategy Pattern-C# (6182)

5. 10 Advanced WebDriver Tips and Tricks - Part 1 (6147)

6. 10 Advanc﻿ed WebDriver Tips and Tricks Part 2 (4240)

7. Create Video Recording Engine - Usage in Automated Tests (4020)

8. Null Object Design Pattern in Automated Testing (3810)

9. Getting Started with Telerik Testing Framework C# in 10 Minutes (3780)

10. Advanced Web UI Components Automation with Telerik Testing Framework (3630)



Articles from All Time



1. Top 15 Underutilized Features of .NET (148271)

2. Top 15 Underutilized Features of .NET Part 2 (81305)

3. Strategy Design Pattern in Automation Testing (64697)

4. Integrate Jenkins with MSBuild and NuGet (32957)

5. Page Object Design Pattern (20755)

6. Using Selenium WebDriver with Tor C# Code (20037)

7. Implement Copy Paste C# Code (19663)

8. Connect to TFS Team Project C# Code (17185)

9. Reduced AutoMapper- Auto-Map Objects 180% Faster (15957)

10. Change .config File at Runtime C# Code (15416)



2017 Plans and Beyond







I am a man that always love to have plans and stick to them. I will continue to produce high-quality articles each week. I also plan to develop video and email courses. I hope you will read soon about them.

Thank you for being loyal fans and readers! Happy coding/testing!

