By Eduard Dubilyer , CTO of Skipper Soft 🔍 Introduction AI-powered test automation is transforming how we design and execute tests. Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate test ideas, automation scripts, and intelligent test coverage suggestions without manual scripting. However, when third parties access your environment, there’s always a risk of exposure or misuse. But…
🧐 Why This Matters? As QA professionals, we continuously seek tools that make testing faster, smarter, reliable and more efficient. Traditional UI test automation requires coding, maintenance, constant debugging, writing complex scripts, maintaining flaky tests and debugging failures – a time-consuming process. Now, imagine an open-source, AI-powered tool that simplifies UI testing without deep scripting….
We recently had the opportunity to work with a company that already had a well-established test automation process. Their tech lead and automation engineers were doing great work, but they approached us to see if we could help them optimize their existing framework. They were confident in what they had, but wanted a second opinion…
Imagine having a 20-year-old legacy product, part of it running on JSP, and some new pages on React Native. Now, imagine trying to test this with an automation framework that works fine for the new pages but is painfully slow and inefficient for the legacy ones. Sounds familiar? This was exactly the challenge of our…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO & Automation Testing Expert at Skipper Soft As a CTO deeply immersed in automation, I’ve often faced the challenge of fragmented logging in automation frameworks. Picture this: logs scattered across the console for debugging, external tools like Report Portal for reporting, and redundant code tangled in the process. It’s a setup…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO & Automation Testing Expert at Skipper Soft I was excited when I started my first automation project over a decade ago. I had just joined a fast-growing tech company as their lead automation architect. The task was straightforward: build a robust automation framework that could scale with the company’s aggressive growth….
By Igor Goldshmidt, Testing & Quality Engineering Expert Introduction Test automation can transform your software development process, but jumping in without proper planning can lead to wasted resources and frustration. Before embarking on this journey, R&D leaders need to ask the right questions to ensure their company is ready. Let’s explore what happens when you…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO & Automation Testing Expert at Skipper Soft I’ve been in the R&D trenches for years, from long nights debugging complex codebases to leading high-stakes product launches. Throughout this journey, I’ve learned a lot about what makes R&D managers wary of consulting and service companies. As the CTO of Skipper, a company…
By Igor Goldshmidt, Testing & Quality Engineering Expert As a QA Manager, one of my goals was always to grow a solid QA Lead from within our team. I had talented QA Engineers who showed potential but lacked the leadership experience to step into a QA Lead role. They were technically strong but needed to…
By Igor Goldshmidt, Testing & Quality Engineering Expert Every day we get swamped with a number of ads for “QA” courses. While there are many combinations for this title, essentially, it is always about “QA”. But, let’s be honest- “QA” and Software Testing are just not the same thing. Then, why you’d ask representatives of…