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I'm (re-)starting a newsletter

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...

My thoughts on 'self-healing' in test automation

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...

The 'valuable' in valuable feedback, fast

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...

On increasing focus in my career

Note: this is not the most well-structured blog post I’ve written, but rather a recording of my not (yet) completely organized thoughts. Last week, I was at the Test Automation Days conference, both as a member of the program committee,...