I can across Maaike Brinkhof's most recent blog post this morning and from the front cover picture I knew I was in for the read I needed. It is always comforting to come across someone articulating...

Automation bias is an error in judgement that comes from evaluating information coming from automated sources, as we tend to put a high degree of trust in them. This is becoming more problematic as the number of automated systems we rely on is only growing and we have a tendency to not notice errors in their output. Examples in software testing include: Assuming the automated test pipeline passing means the software is without bugs (trusting the automated tests too much). Putting a lot of effort into fixing flaky automation because automation bias leads you to believe they hold a high degree of value.

Eighteen months, 19 modules, and 59 amazing contributors later, the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification is complete! Looking back, my favourite part has been seeing so many community m...