Earlier this week, I ran my first two training sessions of 2026. Running these sessions reminded me (once again) that training really is what I enjoy the most and what I do best. Working with a group of engineers, introducing them to new techniques, patterns, principles and tools, and exploring and discussing how these could help them improve their automation, testing and development efforts to get closer to the end goal of valuable feedback, fast is a very rewarding thing to do.

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A test automation trainer reflects on delivering their first training sessions of 2026, covering Behaviour-Driven Development and contract testing with Pact. The BDD workshop walked through the full process from Example Mapping to Gherkin scenarios and Cucumber implementation. The contract testing workshop was recently redesigned to focus more on process flows and tooling like Pact Broker and can-i-deploy, rather than just code. With five training days already scheduled for January (compared to starting in March last year), the trainer is optimistic about achieving their 20% revenue growth goal while staying off social media.

On the first training sessions in 2026