A few years ago, while setting up a large-scale test automation project for an eCommerce giant, I encountered one of the most frustrating challenges in Selenium test automation; handling dynamic web elements in Selenium Webdriver. Our test suite was designed to cover thousands of test cases, yet every UI update caused major test failures. XPath locators broke overnight, elements…
For decades, Apache JMeter has been the industry standard for load testing, especially for performance engineers and QA teams working with web applications, APIs, and microservices. It’s open-source, widely adopted, and extremely powerful in terms of simulating user traffic under load. But if you’ve ever tried using JMeter at scale, you know it comes with its fair share of…
Let me start with a story I think many of us in tech leadership can relate to. Picture this: your dev team just wrapped up a huge deployment. The QA process went off without a hitch, everything looked great in staging, and everyone’s feeling good about hitting that launch button. However, a few hours post-deployment, your inbox lights up…
A few years ago, I was consulting with a fast-growing SaaS company that had just launched a major update to their flagship product. Initially, the release was met with excitement as users eagerly explored the new features. However, within hours, the celebration turned into a crisis. Customers began reporting critical bugs—applicatiqons crashed on certain browser versions, payment integrations failed…
A few years ago, one of our clients, a fast-growing fintech startup, decided to integrate blockchain technology into their payment platform. They were excited—and rightly so—about the transparency and security blockchain promised. But the launch was delayed by almost six months. Why? Bugs. Lots of them. From transaction validation failures to scalability issues, their blockchain application wasn’t tested to…
