One year on Medium

Things I have learned.

A year ago (2021–01–27), I published my first article on Medium, “Why Gherkin (Cucumber, SpecFlow,…) Always Failed with UI Test Automation?”. This article was well-received and featured in:

• Medium’s largest publication: Start it up
• Software Testing Weekly’s the best and most popular links of 2021 (under category: Thought-provoking)
• Coding Jag #44

This encouraged me to continue to share my thoughts and experience on Medium.

Within a year, many of my articles have been featured in the following three leading software testing newsletters (and other less-known ones).

• Coding Jag
• Software Testing Weekly
• Testing Bits

in total, 90 articles in 126 references

I have so far received a lot of feedback (mostly positive) and encouragement. I am grateful to those who liked my article. Here, I would like to share what I learned from my first year of writing on Medium.

· Why do I write these articles?
· People now read less
· People prefer reading opinion topics over hands-on ones
· Q & A