· 12 min read
Claude Code Has 2 Primitives, Not 3 — Use Skills First
Most engineers think Claude Code has three primitives. It actually has two — skills and subagents. Here's when to use which, with token-cost benchmarks.
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Halmurat T.
Senior SDET specializing in test automation at enterprise scale
10+ years at Fortune 500 companies — Telecom, Insurance, Retail, Financial Services
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Stop Sharing Test Environments — Build One You Control
Shared staging environments are the #1 source of flaky UI tests in enterprise teams. Here's the 5-pillar blueprint for building a controlled test environment.
· 11 min read
We Cut 150 Min of Test Setup with 3 Java Classes
How we built a Playwright API test data layer in Java — replacing UI setup that burned 150 minutes per run with 3 classes and a legacy API wrapping pattern.
· 13 min read
Contract Testing vs API Testing — What's the Difference?
Contract testing and API testing look similar but they catch very different bugs. Here's where contract testing fits next to unit, API, and E2E tests.
· 13 min read
Parallel Execution Without the Refactor Tax
Thread-level parallelism demands ThreadLocal and full framework rewrites. Process-level parallelism doesn't. Here's the difference and when to use each.
· 9 min read
Stop Using locator() for Everything in Playwright
Most Playwright teams still use CSS selectors via locator() out of habit. getByRole and getByText find elements the way users do — and survive redesigns.