software testing 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.

What Is Test Driven Development? A Guide to Saner Coding

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:14:42 +0530

We’ve all been there. It’s 10 PM on a Tuesday, and an alert screams from your monitoring dashboard. A critical feature, one that was working perfectly just hours ago, has suddenly broken in production.

The pressure mounts with every passing minute as you dive into the codebase, frantically trying to pinpoint the source of the chaos. Every change you consider feels like a massive gamble. Did your last deployment cause this? Was it an obscure edge case nobody thought of? Fixing one thing might silently break three others. I once spent an entire afternoon chasing a bug like this, only to find a single misplaced comma. It’s maddening.