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On my new 'Valuable feedback, fast' course

A couple of weeks ago, I published the training page for a brand-new course that I’m looking to run at least a couple of times in 2026. The course is called ‘Valuable feedback, fast’, and in this blog post, I’d...

The fundamentals of test automation revisited

I’m not really one to run after all the latest trends and write or talk about ‘the latest thing’ in test automation. Instead, I prefer to focus on the fundamentals of our work, and the role they keep playing in...

On getting started with mutation testing

As members of a software development team, we spend a lot of time building products that our end users (hopefully) enjoy using. We also spend a significant amount of time performing testing on these products, as well as on writing...

Time for another LinkedIn break

For a couple of years now, I have tried to stop wasting so much time faffing about on the Internet in general and on LinkedIn in particular. I’ve gone on a couple of, admittedly not very successful, LinkedIn breaks before...

Less, but better

There’s an expression referenced in Greg McKeown’s excellent book ‘Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less’ that I’ve been finding myself thinking about on a regular basis for the last couple of months, and that’s “Weniger aber besser” This German expression...