My Featured Articles

Many of my articles on Test Automation, Agile, and Continuous Testing are featured in leading soft testing newsletters.

This is a repost of my past article on Medium

I started posting articles on Medium on Jan 27, 2021. Many of them have since been featured in the following four leading software testing newsletters (in alphabetical order):

∘ Coding Jag
∘ Software Testing Notes
∘ Software Testing Weekly
∘ Testing Bits

As of July, 2023:

154 articles in 196 references as below:

Coding Jag

— A Testing Newsletter by LambdaTest

#135 (2023–04–13)

• Case Study: Continuous Performance Testing

#131 (2023–03–17)

• Locating a Web Element that disappears after Inspect

#129 (2023–03–03)

• Two Simple Reasons that ChatGPT (AI) Won’t Work in End-to-End Test Automation

#123 (2023–01–20)

• My Innovative Solution to Load Testing: Run Selenium Tests (in real browsers) in a CT Server with Parallel Execution for better Load Testing

#120 (2022–12–29)

• Playwright vs Selenium WebDriver Syntax Comparison by Example

#117 (2022–12–08)

• My Innovative Solution to Test Automation: TestWise, the Next-Gen Functional Testing

#115 (2022–11–24)

• BuildWise CT Server in Docker

#109 (2022–10–14)

• Why do I prefer Selenium over Watir?

#105 (2022–09–16)

• Poor Software Load Testing Can Cause Many People Misery

#104 (2022–09–10)

• Case Study: User Reset Password via Email in Selenium WebDriver

#103 (2022–09–03)

• Katalon Codeless Test Automation vs Selenium WebDriver by Example

#98 (2022–07–23)

• Creative Web Automation: Generate Ad-Free Study Notes

#96 (2022–07–07)

• How to Fix “Element is not clickable” in Selenium WebDriver tests?

#95 (2022–07–01)

• One Test Automation Scenario Interview Question that Most Candidates Failed

#92 (2022–06–10)

• Use Advanced User Interactions in Selenium WebDriver to Drive Keyboard and Mouse

#91 (2022–06–02)

• Story: A Former Mentee Failed Test Automation with Protractor

#90 (2022–05–27)

• In-Sprint Test Automation Clarified

#88 (2022–05–13)

• Fake End-to-End Test Automation Clarified

#87 (2022–05–06)

• Automated Testing PDF Download in Selenium WebDriver

#86 (2022–04–29)

• Automated Testing QR Codes in Selenium WebDriver

#83 (2022–04–08)

• There is no “100% coverage” in Automated E2E Software Testing

#77 (2021–02–24)

• Case Study: Automated Testing ‘Login with Remember Me’ in Selenium WebDriver

#75 (2021–02–11)

• Why Test Automation Tool with Runtime License is Evil?

#74 (2021–02–04)

• Reloading a Chrome Extension using Selenium WebDriver

#71 (2021–01–13)

• Be aware of the “fake it until you make it” mindset in Test Automation and CI/CD

#69 (2021–12–31)

• Automating Shadow DOM with Selenium WebDriver

#68 (2021–12–24)

• Selenium vs X, Y, Z, …, all these years

#67 (2021–12–17)

• Playwright with Mocha against Chrome browser

#65 (2021–12–03)

• Software Design Pattern By Example: Strategy

#64 (2021–11–26)

• How to avoid hCaptcha with Selenium WebDriver

#63 (2021–11–19)

• Continuous Testing Clarified

• Chinese Idiom Stories for Software Professionals: #1 Seven-Step Poem (七步詩)

#62 (2021–11–12)

• How to Rescue a Failed Test Automation?

#61 (2021–11–05)

• Use Regular Expressions in Test Automation

#60 (2021–10–29)

• Test Automation Camel, a metaphor that explains why most test automation attempts failed?

#59 (2021–10–22)

• Data-Driven Testing Clarified

#58 (2021–10–15)

• How to Implement Real Automated Regression Testing?

#57 (2021–10–08)

• Regression Testing Clarified

#56 (2021–10–01)

• Estimating User Story Points is a Waste of Time

#55 (2021–09–24)

• Headless Browser Testing Clarified

#54 (2021–09–17)

• Appium Desktop Test Automation Milestone: 60,000 test executions over 2 years for 300-test regression suite

#53 (2021–09–10)

• Evil Mudslingings against Selenium WebDriver

#52 (2021–09–03)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 6: to Happy Customers)

#51 (2021–08–27)

• Unit Testing Clarified

#50 (2021–08–20)

• Protractor, another Automation Framework I rightly avoided, is being Deprecated

#49 (2021–08–13)

• 10-Minute Guide to Set up Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby

#48 (2021–08–06)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 3: to Business Analysts)

#47 (2021–07–29)

• How to Expose Fake UI Test Automation in Fake Agile companies?

#46 (2021–07–22)

• “Is Your Test Automation on Track? Maintenance is the key” is featured as the cover article.

#45 (2021–07–15)

• Draw on a Canvas using Selenium WebDriver

#44 (2021–07–08)

• Test Automation and Continuous Testing Competition Week

• Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow,…) Always Failed with UI Test Automation?

#43 (2021–07–01)

• Cypress Catches Up with Auto-Retry, but in a wrong way

#42 (2021–06–24)

• Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Maintainability

#41 (2021–06–17)

• Drive Chrome with Extensions using Selenium WebDriver

#40 (2021–06–10)

• Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Speed
  Simple techniques to improve the execution speed of some automated test steps, up to 50X.

#39 (2021–06–03)

• AgileWay Test Automation Formula
  A shortcut to test automation success

#38 (2021–05–18)

• A few good calls I have made on Test Automation and CT journey since 2005

#36 (2021–05–13)

• Case Study: Simulate Two Users with Selenium Automation Scripts

#35 (2021–05–06)

• Crazy Web Test Automation: “Freedom Is Slavery”

#34 (2021–04–29)

• Simple Solution to Embarrassing Collapses of Census Website due to Poor Load Testing

#33 (2021–04–22)

• “Why JavaScript Is Not a Suitable Language for Real Web Test Automation?” is featured as the cover article.

#32 (2021–04–15)

• “One Team One Dream” vs “Another Day Another Dollar” is featured as the cover article.

#31 (2021–04–08)

• Why Do Most UI Test Automation Fail? (Part 1: Wrong Automation Framework)

#30 (2021–04–01)

• Selenium 4 New Features by Examples in Ruby

#29 (2021–03–25)

• Functional Test Refactoring: Extract Function

#24 (2021–02–18)

• Which Selenium WebDriver locator is faster?

#23 (2021–02–11)

• Why Cypress Sucks for Real Test Automation?

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Software Testing Notes

-Curating the best articles on Software Testing (QA, Automation, Performance and Security Testing) every week.

#88 (2023–05–31)

• Cowardly ‘Automated Testers’ use “GUI Test Automation is hard” as an excuse to avoid, instead do only API Testing

#85 (2023–05–04)

• Why is Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) Wrong?

#83 (2023–04–20)

• Page Object Model is universally applicable in web test automation

#81 (2023–04–05)

• Too Many Failed JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks!

#77 (2023–03–02)

• Two Simple Reasons that ChatGPT (AI) Won’t Work in End-to-End Test Automation

#75 (2023–02–15)

• Test Creation Only Account for ~10% of Web Test Automation Efforts

#61 (2022–06–23)

• Cypress vs Selenium WebDriver Comparison by Example

#58 (2022–05–31)

• Upskill Software Engineers in Test Automation to greatly Boost Productivity

#56 (2022–05–12)

• Automated Testing Frames in Selenium WebDriver (repost)

#53 (2022–03–31)

• Testing Pyramid Clarified

#51 (2022–03–31)

• There is no 100% coverage in Automated E2E Software Testing

#44 (2022–02–03)

• Reloading a Chrome Extension using Selenium WebDriver (repost)

#38 (2021–12–23)

• Selenium vs X, Y, Z, …, all these years

#34 (2021–11–25)

• How to avoid hCaptcha with Selenium WebDriver

#29 (2021–10–14)

• How to Implement Real Automated Regression Testing?

Software Testing Weekly

a curated list of the best Software Testing news and articles

#177 (2023–07–17)

• Comments on the claims of “7 ways Cypress is different”. All False, Wrong or Lie

• Why Raw Selenium Syntax is better than Cypress and Playwright? Part 3: Accurate, Intuitive, Consistent, and Geniously Designed

#175 (2023–06–30)

• Why Raw Selenium Syntax is Better than Cypress and Playwright? Part 1: History tells the others except Selenium were wrong

#173 (2023–06–19)

• Script-less Automated End-to-End Testing is Silly, Doomed to Fail!

#172 (2023–06–12)

• Three Big Fat Lies about Selenium WebDriver: “Not Reliable”, “Hard to Learn”, and “No Enterprise-Level Support”

#170 (2023–05–28)

• Software Complexity Assessment

#169 (2023–05–21)

• Protractor.js is dead, What did we learn?

#168 (2023–05–01)

• “Cucumber is Dying”, What did we learn?

• Why do Test Managers/Architects Avoid Selenium WebDriver, the Best Web Test Automation Framework?

#166 (2023–05–01)

• Fakes vs (Stubs & Mocks) in Software Integration Testing

• A Long List of Failed Test Automation Hypes

#162 (2023–04–03)

• Too Many Failed JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks!

#161 (2023–03–28)

• Automated Testers Advocate for ChatGPT (AI) is like taxi drivers Singing for Driverless cars

#159 (2023–03–12)

• Correct two Common Misconceptions: End-to-End Test Automation is “Simple and Easy” or “Complex and Impossible”

• Record/Playback in Test Automation is Bad, mostly.

#158 (2023–03–05)

• Two Simple Reasons that ChatGPT (AI) Won’t Work in End-to-End Test Automation

#156 (2023–02–20)

• Test Creation Only Account for ~10% of Web Test Automation Efforts

#155 (2023–02–13)

• Automated End-to-End Testing in the Context of Allen Holub’s Three Agile Values

#153 (2023–01–29)

• Story: “What is the Most Challenging in E2E Test Automation?”

• The Benefits of Using WebDriver, a W3C standard, in Test Automation

#151 (2023–01–13)

• Is Test Automation Still in High Demand? You Bet!

• Playwright vs Selenium Speed Comparison (Courtney's)

#150 (2022–12–20)

• Testing Center of Excellence Clarified

• Set up Appium 2 to Run XCUITest (for iOS)

#148 (2022–12–04)

• Team Considerations in Choosing Automated Test Scripting Language, Why Ruby is much better than JavaScript?

#147 (2022–11–30)

• Testing GraphQL APIs

#144 (2022–11–07)

• Web Test Automation Workbook #02: Web Test Automation Simplified

• Web Test Automation Workbook #39: Responsive Web Testing

#143 (2022–10–30)

• ‘Release Early, Release Often’ Clarified

#134 (2022–07–31)

• Why I Switched my day-to-day work from Programming to Automated Testing? Part 2: More Fun

#131 (2022–07–13)

• One Test Automation Scenario Interview Question that Most Candidates Failed

#130 (2022–07–03)

• Cypress vs Selenium WebDriver Comparison by Example

#127 (2022–06–13)

• Four Screening Questions to Filter Out Fake Test Automation Engineers in Interviews

#125 (2022–05–29)

• In-Sprint Test Automation Clarified

#124 (2022–05–21)

• 35-Word Functional Test Automation Strategy

#122 (2022–05–06)

• A Practical Advice on Rejecting Gherkin for Test Automation

#120 (2022–04–23)

• BDD Clarified: BDD ≠ “Given-When-Then” (Gherkin)

#117 (2022–04–02)

• There is no 100% coverage in Automated E2E Software Testing

#107 (2022–01–22)

• Codeless Test Automation is Irrational

#105 (2022–01–10)

• Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow, …) Always Failed with UI Test Automation?

#103 (2021–12–26)

• Selenium vs X, Y, Z, …, all these years

#101 (2021–12–12)

• Definition of End-to-End Test Automation Success

#98 (2021–11–21)

• Continuous Testing Clarified

#97 (2021–11–13)

• ‘Shift-Left Testing’ Clarified

#96 (2021–11–06)

• Use Regular Expressions in Test Automation

#90 (2021–09–25)

• Headless Browser Testing Clarified

#88 (2021–09–11)

• Evil Mudslingings against Selenium WebDriver

#77 (2021–06–26)

• Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Maintainability

#75 (2021–06–12)

• Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Speed

#68 (2021–04–23)

• Estimating Test Automation Story Points is a Total Waste of Time

#67 (2021–04–16)

• Why JavaScript Is Not a Suitable Language for Real Web Test Automation?

#66 (2021–04–09)

• Why Do Most UI Test Automation Fail? (Part 1: Wrong Automation Framework)

#65 (2021–04–02)

• Selenium 4 New Features by Examples in Ruby

#62 (2021–03–12)

• Irrational and False Excuses for Web Test Automation Failures

#59(2021–02–19)

• Why Cypress Sucks for Real Test Automation? (Part 2: Limitations)

#58(2021–02–12)

• False “Selenium WebDriver Cons”

#56 (2021–01–29)

• Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow, …) always failed with UI Test automation?

Testing Bits

Where Testers find what they’re searching for!

#412 (2021–10–03)

• Automated Test Scripts Shall be in the Syntax of a Scripting Language, Naturally!

#411 (2021–09–26)

• Headless Browser Testing Clarified

#410 (2021–09–19)

• Cross Browser Testing Clarified

#409 (2021–09–12)

• Evil Mudslingings against Selenium WebDriver

• Appium Desktop Test Automation Milestone: 60,000 test executions over 2 years for 300-test regression suite

#408 (2021–09–05)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 6: to Happy Customers)

• User Story Card Clarified

#407 (2021–08–29)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 5: to Testers)

• 30-minutes Test Automation Coaching for A$1

#406 (2021–08–22)

• Fake Code Review with ‘LGTM’

• Unit Testing Clarified

#405 (2021–08–15)

• 10-Minute Guide to Set up Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby

• Protractor, another Automation Framework I rightly avoided, is being Deprecated

#404 (2021–08–08)

• Why is Object Identification GUI Utility in Test Automation Unnecessary?

• 10-Minute Guide to Git Version Control for Testers

#403 (2021–08–01)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 3: to Business Analysts)

#402 (2021–07–26)

• “Is Your Test Automation on Track? Maintenance is the key”

#401 (2021–07–18)

• Draw on a Canvas using Selenium WebDriver

• How to Expose Fake UI Test Automation in Fake Agile companies?

#400 (2021–07–11)

• ShowCase: Great Software Development Productivity with Real UI Test Automation & Continuous Testing

• Test Automation and Continuous Testing Competition Week

#399 (2021–07–04)

• Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Readability

#398 (2021–06–27)

• Cypress Catches Up with Auto-Retry, but in a wrong way

• Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Maintainability

#396 (2021–06–13)

• XP (eXtreme Programming) is better than Scrum, as XP defined DevOps 20 years ago

• Optimize Selenium WebDriver Automated Test Scripts: Speed

#395 (2021–06–07)

• AgileWay Test Automation Formula
  A shortcut to test automation success

• Free Test Automation Practice Site with Database Reset

#394 (2021–05–30)

• Testing Emails in Automated Test Scripts with a Fake SMTP server: MailCatcher

• A few good calls I have made on Test Automation and CT journey since 2005

#393 (2021–05–23)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 4: to Developers)

• “Done, Done” in Agile

#392 (2021–05–16)

• My Continuous Testing Journey

• Case Study: Simulate Two Users with Selenium Automation Scripts

391 (2021–05–08)

• Use UI Automation to Assist Agile Showcases

• Automation Assist, Part 1: Showcase

#390 (2021–05–01)

• Crazy Web Test Automation: “Freedom Is Slavery”

• Why Do Most UI Test Automation Fail? (Part 3: Wrong Scripting Language)

#389 (2021–04–24)

• Estimating Test Automation Story Points is a Total Waste of Time

#388 (2021–04–17)

• Why Do Most UI Test Automation Fail? (Part 2: Wrong Choice of Test Syntax Framework)

• Why JavaScript Is Not a Suitable Language for Real Web Test Automation?

#387 (2021–04–10)

• “One Team One Dream” vs “Another Day Another Dollar”

• Why Do Most UI Test Automation Fail? (Part 1: Wrong Automation Framework)

#386 (2021–03–27)

• Functional Test Refactoring: Move

• My Test Automation Journey

• With a Good Continuous Testing Process, You Can Get “GOOD & CHEAP & FAST” in Software Development

#385 (2021–03–27)

• Software Development Trend ⇒ Continuous Testing

• My Dream that I Had 20 Years Ago: “develop a cool C++ app”​ Has Been Finally Realised

• Selenium 4 New Features by Examples in Ruby

#384 (2021–03–20)

• Functional Test Refactoring: Extract Function

• Functional Test Refactoring: Introduction

• Lessons Learned from Test Failures due to a new ChromeDriver Bug

#383 (2021–03–13)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 2: to Wise Managers)

• Irrational and False Excuses for Web Test Automation Failures

• Set Up a Continuous Testing Server to Run Selenium Tests in Minutes

• Web Automation Framework Trend ⇒ Selenium WebDriver

#382 (2021–03–06)

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 1: to Executives)

• Why Don’t I Use Defect Tracking? No Need, I do real Continuous Testing

• WhenWise Regression Test Suite Reaches 500 Selenium tests and ~300K Test Executions

#381 (2021–02–27)

• Advice on Self-Learning Test Automation with Selenium WebDriver

• Maintainable Automated Test Design

• Test AJAX Properly and Efficiently with Selenium WebDriver, and Avoid ‘Automated Waiting’

• Working Automated Test ≠ Good Reliable Test

#380 (2021–02–20)

• Please, Not Another Web Test Automation Framework, Just Use Raw Selenium WebDriver

• Why Cypress Sucks for Real Test Automation? (Part 2: Limitations)

#379 (2021–02–13)

• False ‘Selenium WebDriver Cons’