AI is making writing code faster, but it’s not always making software production faster. I’ve spoken to several people over the last months who have told me this using different words. Developers are churning out more merge requests and sending more tickets for testing quicker than ever before, and usage of the word “bottleneck” […]
Category: Experience Reports
10 Years in Testing: Then and Now
Wow, ten years in testing. It feels both correct and surreal. A lot of things have happened over the last decade, and reading back over the old X Years in Testing posts is really interesting. So what do I have to report now? A part of me wants to go through old headings and […]
I Vibe Coded an App and Learnt Exactly What I Thought I Would
If you read my blog On No / Low Code and AI for Automation, Testing, and Quality Engineering, then you probably already know how I feel about AI in software production and what the kids call “vibe coding”. Feel free to read that first if you haven’t already. I won’t keep you waiting. […]
Salesforce UI Automation: POM vs UTAM vs TestZeus Hercules
Having joined my first Salesforce project just over six months ago, we’re now ready to consider automating the UI. We previously had one automated UI flow for our old system, which was completely different, and this was created as more of a proof of concept (PoC) for automated system integration tests across different […]
The George Foreman Heuristic for Quality
I once worked on a project that was… Not very exciting. It had its problems, but it wasn’t the worst. It had some things going for it, but none were exciting or ground-breaking. We did our best to test and build in quality, but there were many aspects that the client just didn’t […]