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On Test Automation
I provide test automation training and consultancy, teaching you how to write tests that deliver valuable product feedback, fast
Latest posts
My thoughts on ‘self-healing’ in test automation
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 them whatever you want.
The ‘valuable’ in valuable feedback, fast
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 the most efficient manner possible.
On increasing focus in my career
Note: this is not the most well-structured blog post I’ve written, but rather a recording of my not (yet) completely organized thoughts.
Writing tests with Claude Code - part 1 - initial results
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 Claude to touch the tests themselves, and why. I was still curious, though, to find out for myself what Claude was capable of in terms of writing tests, and to what extent the trust…
Refactoring the RestAssured.Net code with Claude Code
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 the latest technology and trends. I just don’t ‘do’ trends very well. I do, however, read a lot of what others think about and write about with regards to these…
My LinkedIn break - six weeks in
About six weeks ago, I decided to take some time away from LinkedIn. I won’t go into the reasons behind this decision again, you can read all about that in the post I just linked to, but I do want to take some time and look back on the past six weeks and the things that not spending so much time on LinkedIn have brought me.
On the first training sessions in 2026
Earlier this week, I ran my first two training sessions of 2026. Running these sessions reminded me (once again) that training really is what I enjoy the most and what I do best. Working with a group of engineers, introducing them to new techniques, patterns, principles and tools, and exploring and discussing how these could help them improve their automation, testing and development efforts to…
I’ll be facilitating a tutorial at EuroSTAR 2026
One of the decisions I made early last year was to pretty much stop contributing to conferences abroad. I’m not going to revisit my reasons for that decision here, if you’re interested in them, you can read the blog post I just linked to.
On my new ‘Valuable feedback, fast’ course
A couple of weeks ago, I published the training page for a brand-new course that I’m looking to run at least a couple of times in 2026. The course is called ‘Valuable feedback, fast’, and in this blog post, I’d like to share a little more about why I created this course, why it is designed in the way I have in mind and what it will look like.