Darvin Patel — Blog https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog Notes on test automation, CI/CD, and quality engineering. en-US Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building a Cross-Platform Test Automation Stack https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/mobile-web-automation-stack https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/mobile-web-automation-stack Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT The tools I reach for when a product spans web, iOS, and Android — and how they fit together into one cohesive suite. AutomationAppiumWebdriverIOBrowserStackTools Taming Flaky Tests https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/taming-flaky-tests https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/taming-flaky-tests Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Flaky tests erode trust in your whole suite. The common causes of flakiness in end-to-end automation and how to fix them for good. TestingQualityPlaywright Running Automated Tests on CircleCI and Bitbucket Pipelines https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/cicd-circleci-bitbucket https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/cicd-circleci-bitbucket Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT A practical look at wiring Playwright suites into CircleCI and Bitbucket Pipelines — caching, parallelism, and keeping feedback fast. CI/CDCircleCIBitbucketPlaywright Why TypeScript Belongs in Your Test Automation https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/typescript-for-test-automation https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/typescript-for-test-automation Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Type safety isn't just for production code. Here's how TypeScript makes test suites more readable, refactor-safe, and self-documenting. TypeScriptTestingAutomation Shift-Left Testing in Practice https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/shift-left-testing https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/shift-left-testing Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT What "shift-left" actually means for a test engineer, and the concrete habits that move quality earlier in the delivery cycle. CI/CDQualityProcess Building a TDD UI + API Framework in Playwright https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/playwright-tdd-framework https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/playwright-tdd-framework Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I structure a maintainable Playwright + TypeScript framework that covers both UI and API layers, wired into CI/CD from day one. PlaywrightTypeScriptTesting Cypress vs. Playwright — How I Choose https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/cypress-vs-playwright https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/cypress-vs-playwright Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Both are excellent end-to-end frameworks. A pragmatic comparison of where each one shines, based on real project experience. CypressPlaywrightTesting Consumer-Driven Contract Testing with Pact https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/api-contract-testing-pact https://portfolio.darvinpatel.com/blog/api-contract-testing-pact Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT How contract testing catches integration breakages between microservices long before they reach a slow, brittle end-to-end suite. PactContract TestingAPIMicroservices