https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles QA engineering, test automation, and AI-assisted engineering notes. en https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/ai-fundamentals-part-1-what-ai-actually-is https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/ai-fundamentals-part-1-what-ai-actually-is Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why did Netflix recommend that show? How did your phone recognize your face? The answer is artificial intelligence, but what do we actually mean by that? This chapter starts from zero, no jargon, real understanding. https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/what-ai-actually-does-how-machines-behave-intelligently https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/what-ai-actually-does-how-machines-behave-intelligently Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Your phone unlocks with your face, Netflix recommends the next show, your inbox filters out spam. What's actually behind all of this? In this first chapter, with zero technical background required, I explain what AI actually does and why machines appear "intelligent." https://medium.com/@abdulkadirakyurt.de/appium-2-0s-plugin-system-is-the-most-underused-feature-in-mobile-automation-f6584262b59b https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/appium-20s-plugin-system-is-the-most-underused-feature-in-mobile-automation Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Appium 2.0 shipped with a plugin architecture that most teams ignored in favor of just getting their existing tests running. A year into using it seriously, here's what you're missing. https://medium.com/@abdulkadirakyurt.de/shift-left-testing-in-enterprise-teams-whats-actually-working-in-2024-897db89b6119 https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/shift-left-testing-in-enterprise-teams-whats-actually-working-in-2024 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shift-left has been the dominant narrative in enterprise QA for years, but the gap between what organizations claim to do and what actually happens in their CI pipelines tells a different story. https://medium.com/@abdulkadirakyurt.de/your-test-pyramid-is-upside-down-heres-how-that-happened-and-what-to-do-about-it-e56b30d7aefe https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/your-test-pyramid-is-upside-down-heres-how-that-happened-and-what-to-do-about-it Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most teams think they have a healthy test pyramid, but a quick count of their CI run times tells a different story. Here's how to diagnose an inverted pyramid and actually fix it. https://medium.com/@abdulkadirakyurt.de/istqb-ct-ai-certification-an-automation-engineers-honest-assessment-4e1917ceb8ae https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/istqb-ct-ai-certification-an-automation-engineers-honest-assessment Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The ISTQB Certified Tester AI Testing (CT-AI) certification has been generating buzz in QA circles, but is it actually useful for engineers already deep in automation work, or just another credential to pad a resume? https://medium.com/@abdulkadirakyurt.de/one-reason-to-fail-why-single-assertion-tests-are-worth-the-overhead-811f8215ec75 https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/one-reason-to-fail-why-single-assertion-tests-are-worth-the-overhead Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Multiple assertions per test feel efficient until one failure masks three others. Here's how I restructured our assertion strategy and what we actually gained from it. https://medium.com/@abdulkadirakyurt.de/eliminating-flaky-tests-in-playwright-root-causes-and-proven-fixes-be3b8f907150 https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/eliminating-flaky-tests-in-playwright-root-causes-and-proven-fixes Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Flaky tests don't just waste CI minutes — they erode team trust in the entire test suite. Here's how I diagnosed and fixed the most common sources of flakiness in Playwright across three production projects. https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/scaling-your-playwright-test-suite-parallel-execution-ci-flaky-tests https://abdulkadirakyurt.com/articles/scaling-your-playwright-test-suite-parallel-execution-ci-flaky-tests Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The real problems I ran into managing a large-scale test suite with Playwright 1.44, and how I solved them, from parallel execution strategy to GitHub Actions optimization.