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Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about increasing focus in my career. If you haven’t read and/or don’t feel like reading that post, the tl;dr of it is that for a couple of years, I’ve been working on...

This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to...

Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS feed know that I have (re-)started a newsletter. Why a newsletter? As you might know (or not), while I’ve been...

From what I’ve seen over the years, tests that exercise a system through the graphical user interface are disproportionally likely to fail for reasons other than an actual, genuine product failure. Call them false positives, call them flaky tests, call...

When I talk about the goals and the purpose of test automation, I often use the phrase ‘valuable feedback, fast’: we use tools to support our testing to help us get valuable information about the state of our product in...