Emanuele Minotto’s Blog

Every team I know does code review.

A few evenings ago I was out for dinner with a friend who works as a developer.

Back in 2016, my colleagues called me “minottobot” - out of both affection and frustration.

There’s a question that echoes through every legacy codebase, every late-night deploy, every “it works on my machine” moment: did you actually try it?

Anyone who works with automated test suites knows the frustration of a flaky test: one that fails every now and then for no apparent reason, blocks the pipeline, and distracts the whole team.

Anyone who has worked on a frontend or mobile app knows this: waiting for a backend to be “ready” is one of the fastest ways to slow everything down.

Over the past few years, I’ve been using Playwright almost every day.

Trust is one of those concepts we usually associate with people.

A few years ago, during a particularly tense retrospective, someone said: “Wasn’t this bug supposed to be caught by QA?”

When we talk about software quality, we usually think about automated tests, architecture, code reviews, or reliability metrics.