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Maslow's Hammer and Three Lies QA Tells Itself
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Maslow's Hammer and Three Lies QA Tells Itself

A short post on what needs to change for QA to thrive in the age of AI.

March 31st, 2026→
Testing Will Become More Important, Not Less
614 min

Testing Will Become More Important, Not Less

LLMs speed up coding but quality concerns remain. Testing becomes more crucial, evolving to include AI-generated tests while human expertise in test design stays valuable.

April 16th, 2025→
Understanding timeouts in WebdriverIO
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Understanding timeouts in WebdriverIO

Learn how to effectively use timeouts in WebdriverIO to create reliable end-to-end tests

February 19th, 2025→
Next big trend in testing? Debugging
544 min

Next big trend in testing? Debugging

Debugging has been with us and will be for a long time. Making improvements on that experience might just be the next big thing.

August 14th, 2023→
Time-travelling with Replay.io
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Time-travelling with Replay.io

Replay.io is a tool that records everything your app does and provides you with debugging superpowers. The recording is a combination of video, source code of your application, DOM snapshots and a timetravel-enabled devtools that allow you to retroactively add print statements to your app’s execution.

July 31st, 2023→
477 min

Cypress.io and GitHub Actions: A step by step guide

GitHub Actions are a powerful and easy-to-learn tool that can help you quite a lot, In this blogpost we'll take a look into how they can be used to run your Cypress tests.

January 16th, 2023→
469 min

Use cy.session() instead of login page object in Cypress

Short guide to using cy.session() command an save minutes from your test run. Creating a session with Cypress can not only save you time, but can be a great substitution for a log page object

November 16th, 2022→
406 min

Writing better command chains in Cypress

Understanding how command chaining in Cypress works is essential for writing stable tests. In this week’s explainer we’ll take a look on how we can make our tests more stable with writing proper command chains

February 15th, 2022→
399 min

Google Sign in with Cypress

Explanation on how to log in to Google SSO enabled app programmatically and how does the process actually work.

February 7th, 2022→
334 min

Autocompleting selectors in Cypress with TypeScript

Using TypeScript, we can make our lives with custom selectors easier. Our editor can autocomplete our selectors and check if we aren’t using any that were already deleted

November 15th, 2021→
324 min

Generating a random user in Cypress test

Quick guide on how to generate a random user in Cypress and an explanation of various ways on how to integrate that data into Cypress test.

May 24th, 2021→
265 min

Tips for debugging tests in Cypress

If you’ve been testing for a longer time, you know that writing a test is only half of the story. The other half is maintenance. I share a couple of ways you can debug your tests in Cypress in my latest article.

March 8th, 2021→
254 min

Make your Cypress tests faster with .clock()

With .clock() and .tick() functions, it is possible to manipulate app’s time and make your test faster by skipping waits of setTimeout() and setInterval() functions.

March 1st, 2021→
199 min

Understanding code coverage in Cypress

It’s pretty awesome that you can use e2e tests to generate your coverage data. In this blog I’m describing how the whole process works.

January 18th, 2021→
184 min

Hover in Cypress

Short guide on how to hover over elements in Cypress. As there are multiple ways hover actions work, there are multiple ways of achieving hover.

January 11th, 2021→
124 min

Cypress basics: Where did my cookies disappear?

Cypress clears the browser state before each of your tests. This means that sometimes you might need to think about how you need to handle cookies.

October 27th, 2020→
116 min

Testing a websocket application with Cypress

Learn how to test websocket-enabled applications using Cypress.io, including handling real-time updates and verifying socket messages.

October 19th, 2020→
054 min

Testing lists of items

Short description of various ways of testing list of items using Cypress, utilizing Cypress’ retryability.

April 6th, 2020→
043 min

Improve your error screenshots in Cypress

Explanation of how you can use cy.log() command to make your screenshots more readable and your debugging experience even faster.

March 9th, 2020→