What Makes My Articles Unique? Part 1: Originally for my daughter and myself.

Uncompromised and direct views from 18+ years of hands-on Test Automation experience, International Award-Winning Software Developer, and Micro-ISV

Zhimin Zhan
6 min readMar 14, 2024

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Firstly, allow me to clarify the title. It might sound a bit arrogant, but that’s not the intention. Every writer’s blog is unique it his/her own way unless plagiarised. I’m simply highlighting my unique aspects, that’s all.

Part 1: Originally for my daughter and myself.
Part 2: Not striving to be a Techfluencer.
Part 3: Not to Earn a Living from Writing ($$$) (TBA)
Part 4: From rare combinations of Experience, Hands-on Experience (TBA)
Part 5: Direct and unafraid to say what others won’t, and most of my predictions are later proven correct (TBA)

After three years of writing on Medium, the number of individuals following my blog has now surpassed 3000. As E2E test automation (my main topic) is relatively quite small in software development, I don’t know (and don’t care) whether the 3K is big or not.

Anyway, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on my three years of writing on Medium and share it with my subscribers. (I prefer not to use the term ‘followers’. We are equal; a reader who

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.