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Practical notes on QA, mobile automation, and shipping with confidence.

Building a Maestro mobile automation workspace from zero

How I structured flows, selectors, and assertions in Maestro and wired the suite into GitHub Actions — the setup that cut our regression time in half.

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A practical smoke vs. regression strategy for small QA teams

How to decide what belongs in a 10-minute smoke suite versus the full regression pass — a risk-based approach for teams with more work than testers.

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Frontend bugs your automation will never catch

Layout breakage, RTL mirroring, interrupted flows, dead states — the frontend defect classes that pass every automated check, and the exploratory techniques that find them.

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