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
(the article links have been updated to use Substack ones, using an automation script created by my daughter. Stay tuned for this case study)

I started posting articles on Medium on Jan 27, 2021. Now I am in the process of moving these articles to SubStack as the main platform (Medium will be kept as well with less frequent updates).

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 (stopped in Oct. 2021)

As of November 12, 2022:

So far there are 119 articles in 158 references as below:

Coding Jag

— A Testing Newsletter by LambdaTest

#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?

Software Testing Notes

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

#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

#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’