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Practicing Playwright: Dynamically Creating Test Data with a DataFactory

Practicing Playwright: How to Detect Broken Images On Your Site

Pramod Dutta discusses 7 Playwright features senior SDETs use daily

Practicing Playwright: Logging in by Storing and Using an Authentication Cookie in Your Automated Tests

So much job interview prep! Playwright + TypeScript + GitLab

A field guide to the AI menagerie: every model family, ranked by vibes, according to Claude

Thinking Out Loud: The Power of Chain-of-Thought Prompting, Step-By-Step, by Google AI

When I Sound Confident But Have No Source, A Note from Claude

The History of Contract Testing with Pact.io

What happens when you pair Playwright with something other than TypeScript?

Integrated Tests are a Scam: The Lecture That Sparked Pact.io

Here's One Simple Trick I do as an SDET to Ramp Up Quickly at a New Company!

Can You Prompt Claude Into Being A Good Tester? Experiments with AI-Assisted Testing

Python Project: Blogger Spam Bulk Deleter Code Walkthrough: Pair-Coded with Claude but Human Explained!

How I've Detected Claude's Fabrications and How I've Handled Them

Becoming AI QA: Jupyter Notebook + Python

QA Blogosphere

Why Python? How AI and Python became linked

Would becoming an AI QA Engineer make myself more marketable? What should I study?

Conversations with Claude: Why do QA Engineers call it 'Test Setup' or setting up 'Pre-Conditions' for a test, while DEVs calls it 'Seeding'?

Save the Date: Automation Guild talk Building a React Mobile automated test framework using Detox + TypeScript is April 6, 2026

Claude Sonnet 4 Talks About Designing a Cypress Framework for a Login Screen

My Villain profile: The Bug Necromancer!

Need a Software Developer in Test? #OpenToWork

Getting Slides ready for my Detox + TypeScript talk for TestGuild!

GitHub Copilot Over-Engineered My Playwright Framework Then Blogged About It! An AI's Perspective on Test Automation Industry Standards

One new LinkedIn advertising banner to go! Thank you Claude AI!

Investigating AI: Playwright-Test-Planner and Playwright-Test-Generator

AI: Good as a Research Assistant. Bad for Creating GitHub Action Workflows

New Project: Cursor creates a Playwright + C-Sharp test framework

New project: Creating an automated test framework in Playwright + C# using GitHub Copilot

New Features of Detox Demo: Security Scanning + Android Support + Cross-Platform Builds!

Creating a GitHub Actions Workflow for Android Detox Testing with GitHub CoPilot? What Could Go Wrong?

The Facebook Ecosystem: React, React Native, Metro, and Yarn

Hands on Automated Testing with Playwright is the start of a wonderful conversation with the Playwright community!

#OpenToWork: Looking for My Next Test Automation Adventure!

AI wants to take over QA? Let it!

DetoxDemo: Now with more GitHub Action Workflow CI/CD Options!

New Features of Detox Demo: CI/CD + Logging + Reports, oh my!

My LinkedIn Year in Review - AI Style head to head matchup between Coauthor.Studio and Claude.ai.

First Time Using GitHub CoPilot to Create a ReactNative LoginPage app. What Could Go Wrong?

Vibe coding DetoxDemo, my first React Native app, is now complete

Beware the Hallucinations When Coding with AI

Two months at SELF already? Happy Anniversary!

New Playwright Course: Playwright Essential Training by Butch Mayhew

Time to Practice Playwright!

Test Guild: Building a Career in QA with Judy Mosley

When building out automation frameworks, keep the stakeholders in mind

How automation recaptures the magic of testing

Need a SDET with 10 years experience for a Remote / Hybrid position in Boston?

Stepping down from being a Meetup Organizer of Ministry of Testing - Boston

The Cheezy Internet: Composing tests using Cucumber and Gherkin

The Cheezy Internet: Writing Ruby + Watir tests for The-Internet

The Cheezy Internet: Installing Ruby + Watir + Chromedriver + VS Code on Windows 10

The Cheezy Internet: Creating a Ruby + Watir + Cucumber automation framework with Jeff Morgan's Page-Object gem

Just purchased a new automation development book, Cucumbers and Cheese: A Tester's Workshop

Long time no hear!

Exploring WebdriverIO - Installation

The next step in my automation development journey

Hello, Verily! Can't wait until June 15th!

Why hire me as an SDET? Some recommendations.

SDET looking for full-time opportunities in Downtown Boston

New article on the Threat Stack blog: How to Write an Automated Test Framework in a Million Little Steps

November MOTB Lightning Talks are now on YouTube!

Wed Nov 11, 2019: Come visit Mabl's new office tomorrow for an evening of lightning talks!

Five Tips On How Testers Can Collaborate With Software Developers

10 Automated Testing Tools That Threat Stack Uses — and Why

Are you sure the buses are still listed? Interacting with APIs with Ruby + NET::HTTP + Gauge