Last month, I shared my experience using GitHub Copilot to create a React Native app from scratch to be used in my DetoxDemo project in my article, First Time Using GitHub CoPilot to Create a ReactNative LoginPage app. What Could Go Wrong? This time, I used GitHub Copilot (Claude Opus 4.5) to create...

Whenever attempting to construct a new automation framework from scratch, it can be difficult figuring out which automated testing toolsets should be used. This is why, before I do anything, I research the new tools and technologies used to create the app I will be testing, hoping to see if there ar...

I really loved Faraz Kelhini & Butch Mayhew's new book, "Hands on Automated Testing with Playwright: Create fast, reliable, and scalable tests for modern web apps with Microsoft's automation framework". Butch Mayhew is a Playwright Ambassador, dedicated to helping others, and it shows! I fully recom...

Hey everyone! I'm looking for my next adventure in test automation.After an incredible but way too short run at SELF ID, building mobile test frameworks for our React Native app, I'm ready to bring my expertise to a new team that values quality, automation, and collaboration.What I bring to the tabl...

Someone on LinkedIn posted: "The smartest engineering leaders I know have been divesting from manual QA for years now and I think that bet is going to pay off big in today's world."If your development process still relies heavily on manual QA and your engineers are now using AI-assisted coding tools...

Have you ever known that you probably should have gone to bed hours ago, but you were doing something so fun, you didn't want to stop? I am like that with my toy React Native application, DetoxDemo, which I created as part of my presentation to the AutomationGuild in April 2026.DetoxDemo: https://gi...

To prepare for the talk I'll be giving to the TestGuild in a few months, since I can't share actual source code of the SELF Mobile app or the automation source code I've written on-the-job, I created a toy project, Detox Demo at https://github.com/tjmaher/detox-demo, a React Native app tested with W...

Thank you, Vernon Richards for referencing Rewind.coauthor.studio ... I love the cute LinkedIn Rewind graphic it produced! I think it was worth the 99 cents. The AI generated post it produced. though, it just didn't sound like me. Too long. Not chatty or informal enough. The phrasing was off as if i...

Do you want to practice mobile test automation development but need a React Mobile app to test against? I have one for you: DetoxDemo, an open-source app with a Login screen, built with ReactNative + TypeScript + Mobile automation written in Detox. The automated tests I coded myself, but the app is ...

For the past ten years, I've been blogging about writing test automation on this blog, writing toy projects to help practice what I am doing on the job, writing articles and courses about test automation, and storing coding projects at https://github.com/tjmaher.Starting in January, my next project ...

Make sure to take what AI gives you with a grain of salt. It can help point you in the right direction as a first pass, but be wary. It might not really understand your question or the material.When writing a UI automated test to confirm that a user could not continue using our React Native applicat...

I am happy to announce that I have found a new job at SELF ID, a start-up where I am writing a test automation suite for their Android and iPhone application. In the past two months I've been building an automated test suite, checking that you can create a new SELF identity, Sign in with your SELF t...

Butch Mayhew, Playwright Ambassador and author of the LinkedIn Learning course, Learning Playwright, has just released a companion course, Playwright Essential Training: Abstractions, Fixtures and Complex Scenarios. Where Learning Playwright covered how to install Playwright, create simple functiona...

Back job searching again? Time to learn a new automation toolset! Thank you, Butch Mayhew for your course, Learning Playwright on LinkedIn Learning.Playwright was launched back in January 2020, by Google Puppeteer developers who took what they learned to build a new automation framework for Microsof...

I absolutely loved this week's episode of Joe Colantonio's Test Guild, Building a Career in QA with Judy Mosley.  This week, Joe interviews Judy Mosley, a QA Engineer of seven years who shares the fun and excitement of testing, discovering the field after attending a web development bootcamp. Anyone...