Artem Bondar

I'm a software test engineer, and I teach QA professionals how to build automated tests you can trust. In this newsletter, I share my thoughts on test automation and everything in between to help you become a better automation engineer.

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I'm done with Page Objects.

ARTEM BONDAR NEWSLETTER About a month ago, I made a controversial post on LinkedIn that got a lot of attention. Not that I wanted to go viral. It was my honest opinion. The more I use coding agents to write tests, the more I realize that I don't want to use Page Objects anymore. Let me explain. Why do engineers use page objects? It's not to show your colleagues how smart you are. Page objects have (had) a clear goal: group test steps into reusable components (methods) so they can be reused in...

3 months ago • 3 min read

QA isn't dying. It's transforming

ARTEM BONDAR NEWSLETTER It's been a little over 2 months since I migrated Bondar Academy to a new platform I built myself. From scratch. Using Claude Code. Previously, I was paying almost $300/month to LearnWorlds. Now it's around $35/month for my own LMS: - Fly.io hosting $6/mo - Supabase for database $25/mo - CloudFlare for video storage and streaming for less than $3/mo Overall, the "vibecoding" experience with Claude Code was quite mindblowing. In the first couple of weeks, I could not...

5 months ago • 3 min read

Serious talk: Your Cybersecurity. I was inspired by the Kieran Drew story.

ARTEM BONDAR NEWSLETTER A few weeks ago, I got an email from Kieran Drew with a scary story. He is traveling in Argentina now. While walking down the street and speaking with his friend on the phone, his iPhone was suddenly snatched from his hands by strangers, who disappeared. In a fraction of a second, the thieves got an unlocked iPhone with his SIM card inserted. He quickly returned home and, using his iCloud account, changed the password to his Apple ID and locked the stolen phone. He...

6 months ago • 4 min read