I work with many clients on improving their unit testing skills. Most of them approach me with the starting premise of “we don’t write unit tests at all”, or “not enough”. That may be true, but I usually explain that… Continue Reading…

Let’s talk about our expectations from automation. Specifically, the expectation that our automated tests will find bugs. This expectation leads to some risky decisions, which I’ll get to in the end. You program the code, debug it, it works. You… Continue Reading…

Want some BDD? It’s coming your way. BDD, or Behavior-driven development, usually comes up when a team decides to do end-to-end level automation, and suddenly BDD frameworks join the chat. But BDD is not really a tool. Understanding the methodology,… Continue Reading…

Let’s talk about test generation. Because ChatGPT or Copilot, or whatever you’re using, will help you to generate lots of them in a blink of an eye. And someone needs to ruin the party. I’ve seen test generation in all… Continue Reading…

Web applications, on their front ends, are HTML pages. The origin of this HTML is some code in the server, that in some way, delivers a complete HTML page to the browser. The browser renders the HTML, and brings all… Continue Reading…

Do you remember 2024? I remember it like it was just last year. I did many conference talks, including returning to Conf42, this time the JavaScript conference, where I did “Playwright in less than an hour” talk and how it… Continue Reading…

Once upon a time, around 30 years ago, there was something called Extreme Programming. XP was an agile methodology (only the word agile wasn’t used and abused then). It sounded cool, and there was a reason for that choice of… Continue Reading…

If you’ve been using Postman for a while, you know it’s very useful for calling APIs, and testing them. Its strong visualization features make it the modern tool of choice. But the real power of Postman is automation. The ability… Continue Reading…

How much understanding do you have in economics? Because, most of our work, in software, is really based on economics decisions. When we’re coding, we’re working to deliver some economic value to the organization. Coding is only half the fun,… Continue Reading…

Throughout history, since the cavemen of old, we were looking for signs of quality. There was one way to do that: Look at the final product and decide. But that takes time. Plus if your work is being assessed only… Continue Reading…