Archives

2026  2

January  2

馃摎 What to read from testing and engineering (2025 edition)

January 10, 2026 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

One simple step to use AI more effectively as a tester

January 10, 2026 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2025  5

November  1

Test Automation Framework or Test Automation Solution?

November 26, 2025 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

August  1

What to read in test automation?

August 7, 2025 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

March  1

Why do we fail at interviews?

March 25, 2025 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

February  2

Paper review: Software Testing Research Challenges: An Industrial Perspective

February 27, 2025 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

AI tools and how they kill learning

February 26, 2025 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2024  9

October  1

On choosing what to learn

October 7, 2024 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

September  3

What I read this summer - 2024

September 26, 2024 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

50 shades of Fibonacci - Solving popular interview question

September 24, 2024 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

‘I already know about it.’ or what to do when everything seems simple

September 22, 2024 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

February  2

On integration testing examples

February 11, 2024 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

On the value of a test engineer

February 1, 2024 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

January  3

On interview tasks for the test automation engineer

January 27, 2024 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

On ignoring recommendations and quality

January 20, 2024 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Why are we testing?

January 18, 2024 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2023  2

April  1

Useful books on testing, automation and engineering

April 8, 2023 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

March  1

Get file content from Github repository

March 25, 2023 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2022  16

October  1

On choosing and changing languages for test automation

October 30, 2022 路 9 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

September  1

On test engineer’s maturity

September 25, 2022 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

August  1

Testability and how to improve it

August 14, 2022 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

July  1

The most complicated automated tests

July 17, 2022 路 6 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

June  4

Under The Hood: How Git works?

June 26, 2022 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Blockchain for Test Engineers: Merkle Trees

June 19, 2022 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

High Tech - Low Test or Problems with Modern Testing

June 12, 2022 路 8 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Blockchain for Test Engineers: What is blockchain?

June 5, 2022 路 7 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

May  5

Blockchain for Test Engineers: P2P networks and Gossip protocol

May 29, 2022 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Blockchain for Test Engineers: Distributed Systems

May 22, 2022 路 8 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Blockchain for Test Engineers: Digital Signatures

May 15, 2022 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Blockchain for Test Engineers: Encryption

May 8, 2022 路 8 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Blockchain for Test Engineers: Hashing

May 1, 2022 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

April  2

Blockchain for Test Engineers: Roadmap

April 24, 2022 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Tips on reading books

April 15, 2022 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

February  1

Quick comparison of gRPC testing tools

February 11, 2022 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2021  21

December  4

My results in 2021

December 31, 2021 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Why does the tester need to bother about distributed systems?

December 23, 2021 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

How to test randomness?

December 10, 2021 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

What does it mean ’to test a blockchain’ and which knowledge do you need for it

December 1, 2021 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

August  3

Load testing for gRPC services with Gatling

August 23, 2021 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Do’s and dont’s of test automation interview

August 9, 2021 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Challenges in testing blockchain-based applications

August 2, 2021 路 6 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

July  4

Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

July 26, 2021 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Automation In Scala: Publish Allure reports with Github Actions

July 19, 2021 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Should You Use Contract Testing?

July 12, 2021 路 6 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Modern Problems With Test Automation

July 5, 2021 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

June  4

Getting Started With Testing Microservices

June 28, 2021 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Paper Review: Non-Deterministic Concurrency Bugs

June 21, 2021 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Automation in Scala: API tests for gRPC service

June 12, 2021 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

My biggest testing regrets

June 6, 2021 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

May  6

Paper review: Simple Testing in Distributed Systems

May 31, 2021 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Test tasks for automation engineers: do we need them?

May 18, 2021 路 6 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Automation In Scala: Allure Reporting

May 17, 2021 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Automation In Scala: Basic Selenium Tests

May 12, 2021 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

How to send and receive emails in automation tests

May 5, 2021 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Magic of Spring Boot testing: UI and API tests

May 3, 2021 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2020  7

May  4

Conducting courses for QA Engineers

May 29, 2020 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Making automation better

May 20, 2020 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Time traveling through Git history

May 5, 2020 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Magic of Spring Boot testing: Data-driven unit tests

May 3, 2020 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

April  3

Course review: Java and Spring courses at Pluralsight

April 26, 2020 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Measuring test automation

April 25, 2020 路 6 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

Book Review: Software Engineering At Google

April 21, 2020 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2019  2

October  1

Turning automation education upside-down

October 17, 2019 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

April  1

Easy way to test Spring Boot microservices

April 2, 2019 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2018  2

November  1

Explaining git flow for newcomers

November 8, 2018 路 1 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

September  1

Tuning up test pyramid for microservices

September 10, 2018 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2017  4

July  1

Working with unix init scripts from Serenity

July 13, 2017 路 4 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

April  2

Assuring REST with Serenity

April 22, 2017 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

How complex and challenging testing can be

April 6, 2017 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

February  1

The one where browser suddenly restarts with Serenity

February 6, 2017 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

2016  6

December  1

The one with coding challenges for newcomers

December 19, 2016 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

November  2

The one with unique requests to web application

November 8, 2016 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

The one where scenario is run from feature file

November 7, 2016 路 2 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

October  1

The one with Cucumber DataTables

October 3, 2016 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

July  2

The one with custom transformer for Cucumber in Scala

July 27, 2016 路 3 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov

The one where Cucumber meets Scala with SBT

July 15, 2016 路 5 min 路 Oleksandr Romanov