The Illusion of 100% Test Automation: Why Synthetic Test Suites Fail at Real-World Edge Cases
Somewhere in modern software culture, an unwritten dogma took hold: If it isn't automated in your CI/CD pipeline, it doesn't count. Engineering lead…
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Somewhere in modern software culture, an unwritten dogma took hold: If it isn't automated in your CI/CD pipeline, it doesn't count. Engineering lead…
Меня зовут Игорь Симаков, я тимлид, руковожу двумя командами. Это две классические продуктовые команды, в которых есть все, кто нужен для полного ци…
Email tests usually fail at the point where a browser action becomes an inbox observation. Cypress clicks Create account , the application says it s…
I’ll be honest: we’re building our own automated QA system for checking website pages (structure, styling, visual consistency) and I suspect we’re r…
Можно ли из тестирования перейти в разработку да еще и стать лидом? Можно. Но в моем случае все началось не с решения сменить профессию или получить…
So far, I have learned how to: Understand requirements Design tests Write test cases Execute tests Report bugs Document results But before all of th…
Originally published on Bugzy.io . A stakeholder logs in to sign off on the release, hits "checkout," and the payment step silently fails. You pull…
User Acceptance Testing is almost complete. The test cases are executed. Most results are passing. The team is asking for sign-off. Before you appro…
A reliable automated test suite should be able to run tests independently, in isolation, and in parallel . That sounds obvious, but one of the most…
Q&A is where I learn the most as an evaluator, because a team's answers reveal what the demo hid. Teams that prepare for these questions look li…
If you've ever recorded a UI test, shipped one button change to production, and watched 40 tests explode in CI — you know exactly why "record and re…
A healthcare platform I worked with needed two and a half weeks to complete a regression pass. Smoke testing alone took seven days. The obvious reco…
I'm a regular automation engineer. Over a few months I built five small projects that test local AI models, and one problem kept coming back: the mo…
Software quality metrics only matter when they help a team make a better decision. A startup deciding whether to ship a checkout change needs differ…
A lot of teams talk about test automation as if the goal is to automate more tests. I think that's backwards. The goal is to get useful feedback fas…
A lot of QA work is not really test execution. It is ambiguity management. What does this requirement mean? Is this visual difference intentional? D…
A few years ago, the default test automation decision was mostly technical. Do we use Selenium? Which language? Where do we run the grid? Today, the…
I asked r/QualityAssurance a blunt question: is managing manual test cases as YAML files inside Git a good idea? The thread got lively. People were…
Most teams think of automated tests as decision machines. Green means ship. Red means stop. That model works right up until the first ambiguous fail…
The easiest browser tests live entirely inside one tab. Open a page. Fill in a form. Click a button. Check the result. Unfortunately, many valuable…
Most browser automation demos use a familiar workflow: open a page, fill in a form, click Submit, and verify a success message. Real products are ra…
Most test automation tools look good during a demo. You record a login flow, add an assertion, run it in Chrome, and get a green result. Everyone is…
A few months ago, I was running QA on a fintech platform a customer-facing portal where businesses fund a wallet and spend from it. Every wallet fea…
TestSprite's CLI makes a design choice most testing tools would never advertise: it refuses to do something. When a coding agent asks for a failure…
Back to Feedback — Episode 2 of 20 Where it came from This one showed up first as a passing comment from a teammate mid-year: I sometimes seemed to…
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Every team has lived this: a pull request looks clean, gets approved, merges — and twenty minutes later the test suite is red. The change was in src…
For the past year and a half, I've been building Evaficy Smart Test — a QA platform for manual testing teams that brings AI into the parts of the wo…
Most browser test suites do not fail because the team forgot how to write a click step. They fail because the system around the tests becomes more c…
AI can generate a test script before you finish your coffee. That sounds like the hard part of test automation has finally been solved. In practice,…