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Most blogs on test automation are about how to add more and more tests to your automation suite, but rarely does anyone mention that you also should consider removing automated tests, especially those that do not provide any value. If you are on a new and relatively fresh project, you probably focus most on adding automated tests across different layers, focusing on automating regression testing certain parts of your service that you create. As your service mature, you probably have built up a good chunk of automated tests and you keep on adding more and more automated tests as new parts are added. Now instead of 10-15 minutes, your test suite perhaps need 20-30 minutes to run, and it becomes heavier and heavier to regression test new code. (This can probably be solved by other means of course, but consider this an example, there could be more reasons why you have a test-heavy delivery pipeline) Seldom does one consider the possibility of removing tests, not only in order to reduce...

This week I have been looking a bit into whether language(s) we speak, shape the way we think? Being raised up bi-lingual from the age of 8, where I spoke mostly Bosnian and Norwegian with a good addition of English, this is quite an interesting topic for me personally. Inspired by a talk from Lera Boroditsky from TEDWomen 2017, who had done a lot of experiments on this, here is what I found out. If you find this interesting, I encourage you to take a look at the presentation, many examples that I mention here are taken from her talk. 7000 languages, different way of thinking? There are about 7000 languages, each different from one another, in many ways, different sounds, different vocabularies, not at least different structures, to mention a few differences. Whether a language affect how we think has been debated throughout the centuries. "To have a second language is to have a second soul", stated Charlemagne, which is quite a bold statement suggesting that language is ...