Best Automation Practices and Red Flags with Nikolay Advolodkin

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Automated testing best practices are critical if you want to succeed with test automation! Just as important is knowing what works is what doesn’t work as well. In this episode, Nikolay Advolodkin, founder of Ultimate QA and a solution architect at SauceLabs will share his top automation best practices and things to avoid (hint: BDD). Discover some red flags to look for in your team’s automation efforts. Listen up!

About Nikolay Advolodkin

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Nikolay Advolodkin is a seasoned IT Professional, Test Automation Expert, and Quality Assurance Innovator whose dedication to innovation and progress has earned him the reputation as a strategist in the information technology space. He is the founder of UltimeQA and Solution Architect at SauceLabs.

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