Zhimin Zhan
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Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer.
A top writer on Test Automation, with 150+ articles featured in leading software testing newsletters.
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Analyse of World Quality Report 2023–2024: Recommendations
Capgemini has recently published World Quality Report 2023–2024 (PDF format), which outlines the latest trends and state of Quality Engineering. Some of its key recommendations align with what I have been saying/writing for years.
By Zhimin Zhan3 months ago in 01
Selenium WebDriver is Still the Best Web Test Automation Framework in 2024
This is an abridged version of my Medium article (2024-01-03) Update (2023–01–15): FAQ for these two surveys. On 2023–12–27, A cypress tester posted a survey in LinkedIn’s Software Testing & Automation group (with 350K+ members).
By Zhimin Zhan4 months ago in 01
What Does it Take to Become a Real E2E Test Automation Engineer? Part 1-A: Broad Knowledge
This is an abrdiged version of my Medium Article, 2023-12-12. Real E2E Test Automation Engineers are rare, even at software giants (long-time readers have seen the quotes) such as Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn. Just give an idea of how rare it is, I came up with an analogy:
By Zhimin Zhan5 months ago in 01
Set up and Develop Selenium WebDriver RSpec Test Scripts with TestWise IDE
The video below uses an Appium + WinAppDriver script to: Launch the TestWise IDE. Create a new Selenium + RSpec test project in TestWise IDE. Script a complete user login test script. Execute the newly created Selenium test.
By Zhimin Zhan5 months ago in 01
Why Ruby is the Best Scripting Language for End-to-End Test Automation?
This is an abridged version of my Medium article (2023-07-23). As a veteran software engineer and test automation engineer/SDET, I fully understand how sensitive when software engineers come to language debate. If you are an engineer fixated on a specific language, don’t read this.
By Zhimin Zhan5 months ago in 01
A Story of One Young Mentee (Remote) Learning E2E Test Automation
About one month ago, my best friend J (in Sydney) contacted me about her nephew, who had just come to Australia to study for an IT Master's degree. During the conversation, I suggested learning a bit of End-to-End Test Automation, which could help improve his academic score in Uni Assignments.
By Zhimin Zhan6 months ago in 01
One Simple Test Automation Scenario Interview Question that Most Candidates Failed
This article is the most liked and popular article on my Medium blog, and one of the “IT Job Interview” series. During the interview for an automated tester role, after the four screening questions, I usually ask one scenario question (otherwise, too short, not respecting candidates). Personally, I don’t like long, brain-teasers or tricky questions. So, this only test automation knowledge question must be related to real work.
By Zhimin Zhan7 months ago in 01
