Maybe you’ve been on a manual QA team for a few years and you’re watching the automation engineers get the promotions, the conference invites, and the nicer laptops. Maybe you’re a junior dev who got assigned to “the test framework project” and you’re starting to wonder if this is your thing. Maybe a recruiter slid […]
There are two camps in the flaky test discourse, and they could not be further apart. The first camp refuses to retry a failed test under any circumstances. To them, a retry is a cover-up — it hides real signal, papers over instability, and lets bad tests stay in the suite indefinitely. The pitch is
Hi, my name is Kevin, and I used to write Selenium tests for a living. I don’t say that with shame, exactly. More the way someone might admit they used to ride a fixed-gear bike to work in the snow. It was a choice. It built character. I wouldn’t do it again. For a long
Welcome to Go Forth and Test Hi. I’m Kevin. This is post #1, so let’s get the awkward introductions out of the way. I’ve been a quality engineer since 2012. Fourteen years of writing tests, building frameworks, breaking things, and occasionally fixing what I broke. I’m a Senior SDET at Ramsey Solutions, and I’ve spent