quality assurance on Kuldeep Pisda

Test Automation Best Practices That Won't Make You Want to Flip Your Desk

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:50:48 +0530

We have all been there. You push a feature, the CI pipeline lights up green, and you move on, only to find a frantic message hours later about a regression in production. That momentary confidence shatters, replaced by a sinking feeling. It’s a common story in fast moving startups and scale ups, where the pressure to ship often turns test suites into a fragile, high maintenance burden. The problem is not a lack of tests, but a lack of strategy. Flaky tests and unexpected breaks are often symptoms of deeper issues, where the cost of maintaining the test suite starts to outweigh its benefits.

Your Guide to Testing Software Requirements Before You Write a Single Line of Code

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:01:25 +0530

Ever poured weeks into a feature that matched the spec sheet perfectly, only to watch it land with a thud? I have. It’s a gut wrenching feeling. You followed the map, but the map led you off a cliff.

This is the silent killer of so many projects: we focus so intensely on building the thing right that we forget to ask if we’re even building the right thing. “Testing software requirements” is the formal name for this gut check. It’s the process of interrogating your plan before the first line of code is ever written, saving you from the nightmare of building beautiful software that nobody actually wants.