By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft The Real Problem Behind “Flaky” Tests I’ve sat across the table from engineering leads more times than I can count, watching them scroll through endless test reports. Red Xs everywhere. And yet, the UI looked fine. The tests were failing, but not due to issues with buttons or…
By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft 1. When and Why the Page Object Model Was Created When I first entered the world of test automation, frameworks were in their infancy. The code was tangled, the logic scattered, and maintenance was a nightmare. The Page Object Model (POM) emerged as a response to this chaos—offering…
By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft “It worked on my machine.” That’s usually when I know we’re dealing with a flaky test. As CTO at Skipper Soft, I’ve worked with dozens of companies — from early-stage startups to enterprise platforms — helping them stabilize their automated test suites. And in nearly every case, the…
By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft Test automation is entering a new era. The script-based testing you’ve relied on is no longer enough. Enter AI test agents: autonomous testers that explore your app like a real user, adapt to UI changes on the fly, and find bugs without writing a single line of test…
By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft What Are Design Patterns and Why Should QA/Automation Engineers Care? A few years ago, I joined a fast-moving fintech startup. The developers were deploying like clockwork, but our QA automation was barely hanging on. A small UI change broke dozens of unrelated tests. Debugging took hours. Reuse was…
By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft As an expert in test automation and the CTO of Skipper Soft – a company providing Test Automation as a Service – I am constantly looking for new features that can enhance the efficiency and reliability of our automated testing solutions. The latest release of Playwright, version 1.51.1,…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO of Skipper Soft Introduction As the CTO of Skipper Soft, a company specializing in scalable and high-quality software testing solutions, I frequently encounter a critical issue in test automation: teams rush to increase coverage but neglect the quality of their assertions. With years of experience optimizing QA strategies for complex systems,…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO of Skipper Soft In our previous discussion on Playwright and dynamic elements, we explored how modern web applications create challenges for test automation due to asynchronous content loading, UI shifts, and unstable locators. But there’s another major factor that complicates automation: localization. When a web application supports multiple languages, elements can…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO of Skipper Soft In the fast-evolving landscape of web applications, test automation faces a critical challenge: handling dynamic elements that can derail even the most carefully crafted test suites. As the CTO of Skipper Soft, a specialized test automation services company, I’ve witnessed firsthand how unpredictable web elements can transform automation…
By Eduard Dubilyer , CTO of Skipper Soft Over the past 4 years, I’ve personally built 26 automation frameworks and consulted dozens of startups. And I keep seeing the same painful pattern repeat: They try to build test automation the hard way.It ends up burning time, budget – and trust. ❌ 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 #1: 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧…