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...
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,...
In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to analyze the code for RestAssured.Net and then perform a refactoring action, using handwritten tests as the safety net. In that post, I wrote that I didn’t want...
As some of you might know, the workshops and training courses I run, the talks I do and the blog posts I write tend to focus on fundamental sofware testing, software development and test automation skills, rather than focusing on...
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